Word: caetani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Participation, returned from playing hooky in Egypt. Said she: "I am a week late, but I thought it would be silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford...
...Renaissance Florence the Antinori family were the leaders of the silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...
...factories scattered over Italy. Long a rayon producer, Snia Viscosa also markets Snia-fiocco, fibre made from wood pulp (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Snia Viscosa's newest concoction is fibre made from milk, which it calls lanital and claims is equal in appearance and quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone 46,140,000 pounds were produced last year, mostly for the paper industry. Some 20 years ago a German chemist named Todtenhaupt made a weak wool...
Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them...
Prior to a banquet, Mr. Robert M. Belts, a well-known Oregon engineer, came to me and asked me if 1 would re-introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left...