Word: rosae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eycks were teaching the world how to paint in oils, Margaretha, their sister, worked as their equal. Even in 17th Century France, age of the precieuse in living and painting, there were a number of women adept in the academic art of the period. A few years ago, Rosa Bonheur painted some oxen, a bull, some horses; Mary Young Hunter brought to life dreaming children and proud old ladies...
...season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing...
...have been expelled and finally, under compulsion by fanatical women, including the wife of Lenin and Mme. Kamenev, it was decided to make students pass an examination on public development. One question was 'Who is the head of the Third International ?'† One unfortunate student answered 'Rosa Luxembourg' and was expelled. A woman medical student who was unable to give the exact definition of the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Republics was dismissed. A third was expelled for not knowing about the members of Lenin's family...
...Leviathan (U. S. Line)?Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Basso Adamo Didur, both of the Metropolitan Opera Company; A. H. Woods, "bedroom man;" Nora Bayes, famed actress; the Japanese Davis Cup Team?Messrs. Fukuda, Harada, Shimizu; Jesus Artegas ("P. T. Barnum of Cuba"), who is taking H. Ponce de Leon, welterweight pugilistic champion of Cuba, with him in hopes of matching him abroad; Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt (Gloria Morgan...
...Rosa Sücher, aged 75, famed opera singer, was discovered "living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante...