Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the terraces of the Villa Savoia, on the outskirts of Rome, King Vittorio Emanuele, Queen Elena, Crown Prince Umberto, Princesses Malfalda and Maria watched a big fire, took many photographs. Next day they praised the courage of the firemen who put out the fire...
...Olaya replied that he was authorized by his Government to accept as persona grata anyone whose name should have been suggested by the Government of Panama, and he added that he was authorized by his Government, in reciprocation, to inquire whether Doctor José Maria Gonzlez Valencia would be persona grata to the Government of Panama...
...First National is still most humbly furnished, but its dividends are scarcely ever less than 60 per cent on $10,000,000. ¶ Mr. Baker has gone in very little for public charity. Cornell has been his primary beneficiary. He is credited with athletic fields at Columbia and the Maria H. Hotchkiss School. ¶"None of the public's business," says Mr Baker concerning himself or his affairs...
...Jack London, whose "Call of the Wild" appeared to be the favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber's Der Freischüts was subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...