Abbott herself became known among Americans as ' the people's prima donna '.

She also studied ballet with Mark Turbyfill and Ruth Page, who became prima ballerina of the Chicago Opera.

There, they had the good fortune to overhear the singing voice of a woman who would later become famous under the name Keni Liptzin, but who at this time called herself Keni Sonyes, who became their new prima donna.

During this period of her life, Kalich had been performing in Polish, Russian, and German, but when Gimpel's leading lady left for America, Kalich became his prima donna, winning the title role in Avrom Goldfaden ’ s operetta Shulamis.

Margot Lander became principal dancer in 1933 and Denmark ’ s first prima ballerina in 1942.

In 2004 she became famous for authoring the erotic novel, 100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire ( translated into English by Lawrence Venuti as One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, 2004 ).

* Voluntary manumission became officially possible, with the introduction of the manumission deed ( the shetar shihrur ), which was counted as prima facie proof of manumission.

Emma ( Anne Bancroft ) stayed and eventually became a prima ballerina with the American Ballet Company ( while having an affair with Michael, the ABA Company Head ).

The Swiss-born American Eva Evdokimova became recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta following guest appearances with the Kirov Ballet in the 1970s, when she was named as such by the company ballet mistress, Natalia Dudinskaya.

Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova ( Russian: Александра Дионисьевна Данилова ) ( November 20, 1903 – July 13, 1997 ) was a Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen.

Isabella Colbran became the prima donna of the Teatro San Carlo company, where she counted among her admirers the King of Naples as well as an adoring public.

The show's prima ballerina, Marie Bonfanti, became a star in New York.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

In 1803, it became the capital of a newly formed Swiss canton, Vaud under which it joined the Swiss Federation.

The inductive hypothesis was also employed by the Swiss Jakob Bernoulli, and from then on it became more or less well known.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

The cultivation of grain was promoted, and the Swiss railway became the first to use electric instead of coal-burning, steam-driven engines.

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

Swiss importers added a little artisanal circuit, with specific IC, for France L norm, tuner became multistandard, but VCR record French broadcasts, on air, in MESECAM, the tapes are played in black and white on SECAM players, and SECAM tapes played B / W in these modified tuner VCR.

In 1401, the first of the Appenzell Wars broke out, and following the Appenzell victory at Stoss in 1405 they became allies of the Swiss Confederation in 1411.

The abbot became an ally of several members of the Swiss Confederation ( Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz and Glarus ) in 1451.

While both Appenzell and St. Gallen became full members of the Swiss Confederation in 1454.

After the alliance with Bern in 1295, it became part of the Swiss Confederation.

In this way Lucius, the early missionary of the Swiss district of Chur, became identified with the alleged British king of the Liber Pontificalis.

The region north of the St. Gotthard Pass became the nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the early 14th century.

Most of these have fallen into obscurity but some became established, including The Swiss Family Robinson.

Starting in the 2008 – 2009 season, FC Vaduz became the first Liechtenstein club to play in the Swiss Super League, Switzerland's top flight.

Heuer became the first Swiss watch in space thanks to a Heuer Stopwatch, worn by John Glenn in 1962 when he piloted the Friendship 7 on the first manned U. S. orbital mission.

It became the Swiss Cottage Restaurant in the 1990s.

Marr eventually became the head of the secret society and began to lean towards anarchism and atheism, founded another secret society, the " Schweizerischer Arbeiterbund " ( Swiss Worker's Union ) and edited the " Blätter der Gegenwart für soziales Leben " ( Present-Day Papers for Social Life, 1844 / 45 ).

On 1 January 2009 the Swiss multimedia shops company CityDisc officially became property of the France Telecom group and became Orange CityDisc, the first hybrid shops in Europe to sell not only mobile phones and accessories but also music, films and video games.

Swiss mercenaries were sought during the late 15th and early 16th centuries as being an effective fighting force, until their somewhat rigid battle formations became vulnerable to arquebuses and artillery being developed at the same time.

It was then that the German landsknechts, colorful mercenaries with a redoubtable reputation, took over the Swiss forces ' legacy and became the most formidable force of the late 15th and throughout the 16th century, being hired by all the powers in Europe and often fighting at opposite sides.

In the Central Alps the chief event, on the northern side of the chain, is the gradual formation from 1291 to 1516 of the Swiss Confederacy, at least so far as regards the mountain Cantons, and with especial reference to the independent confederations of the Grisons and the Valais, which only became full members of the Confederation in 1803 and 1815 respectively.

He became a master alchemist who formulated an elixir of immortality made from rose petals, tea leaves from mcleodganj and other ingredients.

His son, Martin Ruland the Younger ( 1569 – 1611 ), also became a renowned physician and alchemist.

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.

Paracelsus, who was called the " Luther of Medicine ", describes these mystics sages as " persons who have been exalted ( verzueckt ) to God, and who have remained in that state of exaltation, and have not died (...) nobody knew what became of them, and yet they remained on the earth ".

Bodenstein also became, with Gerhard Dorn, Johannes Oporinus, and Michael Toxites, the most influential translator of the works of Paracelsus.

Partly inspired by Mary Shelley's friend John Polidori and largely based on Renaissance physician and botanist Paracelsus, it became Thesiger's most famous role.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.

So, walking in awe, he became familiar with God, who resided chiefly in Drew Centennial Church with its high steeple and clock.

There have always been tales of disillusionment -- the competent technician who became an administrator, willingly or not, and found he didn't like it ; ;

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

A restaurant posted a reminder to patrons `` who became excited and left without paying their checks ''.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

He also used as an example the manufacturer who introduced an all-automatic camera in Germany, with the result that it became the best selling camera in the German market.

a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy major at the University of Miami ; ;

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

Nancy Hanks married Thomas, who became a respected citizen.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.