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Word: viss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack in the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debussy Embrace | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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