Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gypped. But few are the art lovers smart enough to get themselves sued by a dealer on the same grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...
...Italians reached Salûm, they found the town apparently bristling with tanks and guns. But their attack brought only a ghostly defense; the tanks and guns were all dummies made of wood. The column pushed on until it reached Bagbag, 25 miles from Libya, and finally Sûdi Barrani, 55 miles in. The British hit and ran with tanks, armored cars and planes. They dynamited and salted a dozen Roman wells in the neighborhood. But the attackers were supplied with water trucks and apparatus to condense fresh from salt water...
...di Barrani the Italians halted to gather themselves for the push to Mersa Matrûh, where Cleopatra used to bathe in the blue sea waves. No sooner had the Italians settled down than the R. A. F. from the air and the Royal Navy from the sea began harassing them. Well acquainted with the lessons of Lawrence in Arabia and Allenby in Palestine was the British Commander, Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 57, who knows the Middle East like the knuckles on his own hand. He sent his men to work on the un-camouflaged Italian camps with...
...regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed his official blessing on General Manuel Avila...
Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road...