Crossword-Solution: OPERATICALLY 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

During our entire garden interview (operatically speaking, the garden-scene), the President was not smoking.

The Abbé Prévost's famous romance had already been treated operatically by Auber, but his 'Manon Lescaut' was never really a success, and had been laid upon the shelf many years before Massenet took the story in hand.

VALMONTONE was the next town visited, and the festival in honor of its patron saint, Luigi Gonzago, was a decided success; the singing in the church operatically excellent; a good-sized tombola; a funny dinner in the back room of a grocery store, one half of the floor of which was covered with shelled corn, while the other half was occupied by the united legs of two tables, a dozen chairs, four dogs, one cat, six male and three female country people.

Years after, when Gwen's thoughts went back to this trying hour at Strides Cottage, this moment would outstep its importance by reminding her how, in spite of the pressure and complexity of her embarrassment, an absurd memory _would_ intrude itself of an operatic tenor singing to the soprano the story of how she was changed at birth, and so forth, the _diva_ listening operatically the while.

Because of the war Europe was operatically impossible (it was 1916), but I had not the slightest idea of singing in the United States just then.