Word: bardis
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...Both sides of the Via dei Bardi, up to the Piazza dei Mozzi...
...Emperor of Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last week the nervous old General protested his innocence to the point of dragging in, apparently without a scrap of pertinence, French Premier Pierre Laval. "I had complete confidence in Stavisky because so many important persons...
...Beatrice he idolized was the wife of one Simone dei Bardi. Dante rarely met or spoke with her and she died very young. But, says Papini, Dante was no saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini...
...novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...
...follows: Helen Harriden, Miss Mary Ellis Aranka, Mrs. R. N. Burnham Count Ladislaw Henszy, Irving Pichel '14 Count Caroszy, G. E. Massey '15 Countess Henszy, Miss Ruth Delano Madame Henszy, Miss Willowdean Chattison General Henszy, F. Hubbard Nina, Miss Charlotte Read Mr. Kendy, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Bardi, A. P. Archer '17 Janco, D. Holbrook...