Word: nina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will sing a group of American folk songs. The Program Choruses from Croesus and Prinz Jodelet Keiser Shoot, false love Morley Glorius Apollo Webbe (Written for the first Glee Club London, 1700) Chorus from Khovanstichina Moussorgsky (Soloist: Fred Rogosin, 1G) Harvard Follow me down to Carlow Irish Folk Tune Nina Porgolese (Soloist: Donald S. Dever, Jr., '41) Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter North England Folk Tune The Turtle Dove Scotch Tune (Soloist: Hunter H. Comly, '41) More Was Lost at Mohacs Field Hungarian Folk Song Yale Brothers, Sing On Grieg Yale and Harvard American Folk Songs...
Switzerland last week furnished the first notable spy trial of World War II. A brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist...
These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in official secrets on a grand scale. Maltreated Dutch wife of a bibulous Scottish captain in the Dutch colonial forces, she went on the stage in Paris in 1905, passing as part Javanese, with a performance of muscular bravura learned in Java. She became France's leading courtesan, sought, kept...
...Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith...
...time to operas with comic texts. Because Italians had greeted his first opera (Cenerentola) with catcalls and cabbages, Composer Wolf-Ferrari got most of his later works firsted outside Italy. But last week Milanese operagoers had a chance to chortle over a Wolf-Ferrari first. The new opera: La Nina Boba (The Stupid Girl), based on an old Spanish comedy by Lope de Vega...