Word: di
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door...
...Italy, however, that the opera-industry really flourishes, as always. There Maestro Zandonai has already written a four-act Legende, Maestro Giordano his new Cene Beffe, Wolf-Ferrari (composer of The Jewels of the Madonna) his La Veste di Crilo and modernist Malipiero has completed no less than three "lyrical comedies...
...master of the dog peered into a culvert at his foaming canine, started, peered more closely, drew back, crossed himself, exclaimed: Santa, Madre di Gesu Christo, rushed off for the Carabinieri...
Premier Noli of Albania made a sweeping change in the country which he governs. In honor of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson, the port of San Giovanni di Medua, one of Albania's four harbors, was rechristened Wilson. The Premier said that Albanians feel that the U. S. President prevented the Powers from carving up the country in the peace year...
Then came disillusion. Corpo di Bacco! It was no mere Communista they had assaulted. The snorting car belonged to the Soviet Ambassador to Italy. Instead of being commended for patriottismo, they had caused a "regrettable incident...