Word: ravenna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wilhelm Furtwängler and Victor de Sabata (for whom she named her doll)-all before she could read a note of music. When she was seven, Gianella decided she wanted to conduct opera, buckled down for ten months of study. She made her debut with Traviata, in Ravenna, and now knows 18 operas...
Giacomo Lercaro, 61, Archbishop of Bologna, one of the church's most successful campaigners against the Italian Communists. As Bishop of Ravenna, he was credited with defeating the Communists there in the 1951 municipal elections. He is sometimes mentioned as "Papabile," i.e., a good prospect to be Pope...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
Weld 18--John H. Carnahan (Texarkana, Texas); Weld 37--Norman M. Rehg. Jr. (El Dorado, Kansas); Wiggles-worth A-22--D. Broward Craig (New York City); Wigglesworth E-12--Paul C. Shafer (Ravenna, Ohio); Wigglesworth I-22--Robert B. Ross (Jacksonville, Florida); and Wigglesworth K-22--Howard R. Flock (Philadelphia...
...most of the votes were counted in the first round of 2,735 municipalities, it was clear that the most important Communist citadels had fallen. The anti-Communist parties won control in some 800 of 1,200 communities which had been held by the Reds, among them Genoa, Venice,. Ravenna and Forli. Through their control of local governments, the Reds had been able to win friends not through ideological appeal but by doing favors on the mainstreet, grassroots level. Loss of that patronage was a severe blow to the Red political machine...