Word: donna
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...Bella, beautiful; and donna, woman, in Italian...
...Bruno, Vittorio and Donna Rachele Mussolini enjoyed in Sabine rusticity the presence of Babbo Benito. Then, restless, he sped off with Donna Mussolini to Florence, visited their daughter Edda at the Institute di Poggio Imperiale, where she is a student. After luncheon Donna Rachele boarded a train for Carpena...
...months after her husband's triumphant march upon Rome at the head of his "Black Shirts" (1922), Donna Mussolini made no public appearance whatsoever. Then, on Jan. 7, 1923, she was created "Godmother of Fascismo" at a simple ceremony in Verona...
...through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie Melba,* prima donna, Dame of the British Empire, who had set that night for her farewell appearance in opera...
...troupers of the Metropolitan Opera Company last week, gave there their two last performances of the season-Rigoletto with Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...