Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of a visitor named Carlo Noya. Signor Noya went home to the coastal town of Savona. He had an old picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last week that it will be hung in the da Vinci exhibition as, in all probability, the master's long-lost and long...
Reputedly $20,000,000 was spent by Il Duce's orders on the visit of the Fuhrer. Even the railway station at which he arrived was especially built outside the walls of Rome, connected up with the Eternal City by the brand new Viale Adolfo Hitler. This stately avenue and the Via Dell'Impero led the King-Emperor and Realmleader past several of the most interesting relics of ancient Rome, all floodlighted- for Il Duce had stagemanaged that the Führer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though...
...down the road to the onetime Italian legation, now headquarters of Marshal Badoglio. His call on the Italian General was the first recognition of any foreign government that the conquest of Ethiopia is now an accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy...
...field of modern Italian literature the exhibit contains some of the poems of Adolfo Bosis, the young Italian flier who lost his life when flying over Rome in order to drop anti-Fascisti pamphlets on the city. There is also a collection of the poems of Ada Negri, Nobel Prize winner, one of the poets to gain praise from Mussolini...
Fifth Game. Adolfo ("Pop") Luque. a 43-year-old Cuban who has been kicking around in professional baseball for 20 years, squinted with grave concern from the Giants' bench at what the Senators were doing to Pitcher Hal Schumacher in the sixth. Up to that point matters had gone nicely for the Giants. They had walloped "General" Crowder for two runs in the second, Hal Schumacher himself lashing out the single that scored Jackson and Mancuso. In the sixth they had routed Crowder when Mancuso's double sent Davis in with the third run. In all that time...