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Word: borromeo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Correspondent Mead: "As you go from lunch party to cocktail party to late dinner, you realize that these people live more beautifully, possibly, than any people in the world. . . . You go to dine at Count Borromeo's and find that he has discovered an early 18th-Century gold and white vaulted ceiling, uniting five rooms, so he has torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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