Word: annunzio
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...Bailey joined the company of the illustrious Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved the ultimate indignity of being laughed at by first-nighters in passages intended to be solemn...
Italo Balbo was born of prosperous parents June 6, 1896 in the ancient city of Ferrara. A hothead from the first, Italo enlisted at only 19 to fight for Italy during the World War, soon collared medals for "conspicuous valor." When Gabriele d'Annunzio defied the Peace Conference and President Wilson with his quixotic move to seize Fiume and make it Italian, one of the practical young fighters who enabled the poet to succeed in his at first foolhardy, then brilliant coup was Balbo...
...eyed Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio solemnly informed General Achille Starace, Fascist party secretary general, that he was making "final tests" on a powerful chemical of his own devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking...
...that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...Angelo Codes" (d'Annunzio); 2) autobiographic sketches, each ending with an episode in which he has contemplated suicide; 3) his "Secret Book," a philosophical listing of numerous nocturnal notes in which he reveals himself with frankness...