Word: brescia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress...
...most dangerous sporting events in the world is the annual Thousand Mile automobile race round Italy- from Brescia to Brescia, over roads dotted with ordinary traffic and lined with thousands of spectators. When, during the race last week, two of the 143 roaring racers zoomed off the road, killing ten bystanders and injuring 32, the Italian Government decreed an end to the race they instituted twelve years ago as a test of speed and daring...
...Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered while trout fishing, in Estes Park. Colo...
Most valuable of the books on display is a Petrarch "incunabulum Trionfl", printed in Venice in 1497. Also included are an early edition of Boccaccio's "Decameron", printed at Brescia in 1536, and a very rare edition of Boccaccio's "Thirteen Delectable Questions", one of the earliest translations of Boccaccio to be printed in England, published in London...
...young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been arrested. Even Warrant Officer Traviglia's wife did not know what had become of him until two days before the trial. The charge...