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From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...
...coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty's loyal soldiers were to eat first. Beaming upon these fine fellows, Power of Trinity I personally opened the courtyard gate. In swarmed the hungry troopers, fell upon the oxen with their swords, drank the warm, rich blood, tore...
...Aiello left his West Side apartment-house hideout by the front door. Pup-Pup! stuttered a waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited...
...wedding procession was to form inside the upper church, march out the west door and up a grassy hill, then round the corner down through the colonnaded, cobblestoned pilgrim's courtyard to the portal of the lower church. Two hundred young girls of Assisi (practically every available one) were named last week "attendants of the Princess," received white satin dresses donated by her. Soldiers, Fascist militia, torch bearers were told off to line...
...children of the house, does he find the strength of noble heritage without the conventions of elegant social horseplay. The pair make excellent companions, and Sebastian leads his visitor in a scamper over Chevron's rooftops, in the course of which Anquetil saves him from slipping to the courtyard beneath. Taking advantage of his momentary prestige as rescuer, the explorer unburdens himself about his surroundings, analyzes the life of artificiality and compliance to which Sebastian is condemned. He pleads with the boy to come exploring with him. But Sebastian refuses, for his career has already begun: he is having...