Word: ser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Washington the Official Spokesman announced facetiously that perhaps Colonel Starling was suppressing John's athletic endeavors, including boxing;* that it was not unusual for Secret Ser- vice men to guard Presidents' families...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...intervened and her Metropolitan début was postponed to 1921. Out of a potential repertoire of some fifty-odd roles-including German, French and Italian operas-she has appeared in ten at the Metropolitan. She is especially lauded for her Elisabeth in Tannhaüser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Tosca in Tosco. Jenufa is now added to the list...
Jeritza's triumph came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
Features, of the week at Chicago's auditorium were Lucia, presenting for the first time Toti dal Monte, soprano; Tannhaüser, with another new conductor, Mr. Weber; Samson and Delilah. The ever-popular Rosa Raisa's second appearance of the season was in Aida, last Saturday night...