Word: annunzio
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Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "In a chapel designed by me in the garden of my villa at Lake Garda I held night rites alone, burned laurel, scattered the ashes over the grave of an unknown soldier there. A newspaper despatch said that the ceremony excited artistic circles, that it was proposed that others perform similar rites for me when...
...married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood. His death leaves few men living who have played so gaily, freely for the stakes of business and statecraft -Zaharoff and d'Annunzio, perhaps...
...Italy has proved during four years that she intends to fulfill loyally the Treaty of Rapallo; she has not even feared to fire upon the brave and patriotic followers of d'Annunzio and to shed the blood of her own sons. Even more, Italy has willingly complied with conditions that were profoundly distasteful to the national feeling, the election of Zanella and the evacuation of Sussak and of the third Dalmatian zone...
...Latin blood has not been lost from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "A Eucharistic Congress at Zagre, Yugo-Slavia, was attended by a papal legate named Pilegrinetti. This holy man was met at the station by an emotional crowd of nuns and monks cheering loudly. The reason for his warm reception was that the Italian for ' papal legate ' is ' nunzio.' The good Yugo-Slavs had confounded their guest with me and were greeting him by my name...