Word: di
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard of St. Damascus came a final disembarkment from the royal motors. Self-conscious reporters in swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno...
...Wesley; Arthur Foote; F. J. Murphy; J. T. Hughes; N. P. Dodge; E. H. Clark; J. S. Hayes; J. F. Ellsbree; N. F. Edmunds; A. Di Cicco...
Meanwhile in Brussels' central police station detectives were learning things from the unsuccessful assassin. Speaking with difficulty through a broken jaw which he had acquired en route, the young man said that his name was Fernando di Rosa originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this...
...first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
...probably never appeared. Although it is oldfashioned, shrewd critics observed its prize-winning attributes-size, arresting subject matter, the "important-work" appearance of a tour de force. Felice Carena, little known in the U. S., is an officially recognized painter in Italy, an instructor in Florence's Academia di Belle Arte. He was born in Turin in 1880 and studied largely by himself. His painting has traversed the usual "periods," Romantic, Classic, Modern. The Studio, though recent, gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize...