Word: di
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...
Return. Late in the week, Mussolini re-embarked upon the battleship Conte di Cavour for Italy. As he steamed away 15 battleships followed. Observers opined that the numerous provincial Fascist secretaries who accompanied him will fire many an inland Italian with the desire to emigrate to Tripoli. There they may purchase an acre of land for the equivalent of $1, upon signing an agreement to expend the equivalent of $30 in improving it during the next ten years...
...Fiumicino, a seaport near Rome, he boarded the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour amid an ovation scarcely to be described. As the ship's crew cheered him from the rigging and from every other possible vantage point, he commanded silence with a gesture and proceeded to "introduce" the provincial Fascist secretaries to their directorate...
Throughout Europe these "Imperial" sentiments were viewed with the usual alarm. As the Conte di Cavour steamed away, she was followed by the Julius Caesar, by many another Italian warship whose name envisions the greatness of Italy...
...will be irresistible. It was this symphony which marked the end of Haydn's stay in England; after it was played at the Hanover Square Rooms, his triumph was complete. M. Koussevitzky will please the lover of rhythm, and of another century too, tonight, when he conducts the "Pini Di Roma" of Respighi. I shall Union. It has always been my opinion that the Everest climbers were our modern seekers for the Holy Grail,--surely there is a gallantry about the death of Mallory which cannot be denied. However, my choice is made, and it will be Sanders Theatre...