Word: cremona
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Alceo Dossena had a good apprenticeship for his profession. He was born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
...Forest A. Spencer, wife of the assistant commercial attache of the U. S. Legation in Vienna, searched the pawnshops for a 1764 Cremona violin which had been stolen from her automobile, found it had been pawned...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
Still the quarrel went on. Deputy Farinacci, "Savage" leader, wrote in his journal Cremona Nuova: "The spectacle which Rome offers during Mussolini's absence is discouraging. Luckily 'il duce' will soon be back in Rome, and he is above all critics and super-critics ; he is above all candidates and would-be candidates for ministries and under secretaryships...
...past week found Signer Benito Mussolini, patron saint of Fascism and Prime Minister of Italy, busy attending Fascista celebrations in Cremona, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Perugia, Rome...