Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those pre-Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...
Also a lawyer is José Laval's fiancé, almost forgotten last week in the dither over her dowry. He, aristocratic young Count René de Chambrun, is a nephew of the late, great Nicholas Longworth, a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette...
...week members of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which recently cracked down on U. S. "Slave Dancer" Joan Warner (TIME, July 22), took ap proving note of Jose Laval's engagement, adopted a resolution of "hope that after her marriage to Count René de Chambrun she will have many children...
...mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa gave Author Maugham a hint of the stormy intellectual and artistic climate in which his projected characters would live...
...Lope de Vega was acutely conscious of his honor, but when crossed in love revenged himself by writing scurrilous verses about his mistress' family. He wrote 20 pages a day and composed more than 200 full-length comedies in 24 hours each. Getting 50 ducats a play, he was the only professional writer among Spain's great. "When the younger generation came knocking at the door he firmly put his foot against it." Saint Teresa was a great saint but she was also a handsome woman who cried out when she saw her portrait: "God forgive...