Word: capri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to the poor with his left, had enough left over to buy his villa in Capri, retire in comfort. There he lives alone, resents tourists, admires the view...
...Alice Warder Garrett, famed for her parties in Rome, her love for & interest in the Cause of Art, her espousals of many a worthy "movement" (TIME, Aug. 12). At present summering in Baltimore the Garretts will return soon to Rome and ambassadorial duties. But first they will go to Capri where the Quartet's concerts are to be given; where a friend, Dr. Axle Munthe, has loaned them his house. There at Garrett receptions, teas, soirees, the Quartet will play Debussy, Bach, Schumann, Franck, Brahms, Beethoven, for whomever Mrs. Garrett bids attend. Later they will play in Naples, then return...
...toward others. The political exiles live apart from the ordinary criminals. Each of them receives ten lire a day and when it is necessary their families also are supported. Each man is allowed to follow his profession on the island. The climate, which is the same as that of Capri, is healthy. Nobody-now remember this-ever has had to stay there his full term. Not one of them has been compelled to serve all the time for which he was sentenced. I leave no one there for more than two or three years and after that time...