Word: como
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
Thus reported last week a special correspondent of the London Daily News (Liberal) specifically detailed to investigate Signer Benito Mussolini's drive for "Better Begetting" (TIME, Jan. 7). Writing from Como, Italy, just before crossing over into France to file his despatch, the correspondent continued...
...went to church in the morning and in the afternoon we went to the villa Colata. I strayed from the rest and now in the wood around the villa Colata, which is on Lake Como with no sound save the waterfall and the Italian breeze on my cheek. I all alone am writing my journal...
...Josef Willem Mengelberg,* high man in Holland, come once more with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake Como, discussed with him plans for the Philharmonic's 86th season.† Next Night. " Opening concerts," said the Philharmonic program, "Nos. 2189 and 2190"; and proceeded to list a Vivaldi concerto, a Rieti concerto, Ferroud's "Foules" and Beethoven's Second Symphony. A great audience, eager...
...Lake Como...