Word: dio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light-fingered romancer, Author Graves has dug carefully into a mine of authorities (Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, scores of others) for the outline and main incidents of his story. His good and scholarly friend Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence) scanned the narrative for anachronisms, found none. Though I, Claudius abounds in murderous incidents, scandalous anecdotes. Author Graves can in almost every case quote classical scripture as his authority. Says he: "There is no main incident in the book...
...great Galleria (Arcade) Vittorio Emanuele near Milan's La Scala Opera. Drinking vermouth con seltz by the hour, the clique finds much to gossip about. In July 1930, its conversation might have run like this: "So! So! A woman in La Scala. . . . Our Colombo, per l'amor di dio, our dove! What will become of the opera, with her in charge? That professoressa? Shocking...
...quarter where thousands of agitated people were milling about in the street. Small boys pelted the crowd with rocks. A Negro knifed an Italian. Women were fainting. Already the riot squads were on their way, and perspiring traffic cops were trying to reroute automobiles into side streets. "Madre di Dio!" breathed the Italian women, crossing themselves. "Santissima Maria, what a miracle has come...
TODAY IC Captain, MarchSousa Sicillian Vespers, Overture Verdi Liobestraum Liszt-Herbert Borodin, Ballet N. Tcherepnin Largo Handel Dio Fiedermaus, Overture Strauss TOMORROW Carmen, Prelude Bizet A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo Mendelssohn The Doluge, Prelude Saint-Saens Ballet of the Hours, Cloconda Ponchielli Artists' Life, Waltz Strauss Bolero Ravel
...LL.D. degree at the Commencement in 1927. In conferring the degree, President Lowell said concerning him. "A jurist consult eminent by his writings, powerful by the weight of his opinions on public and international affairs." He is editor of the "Europaische Gesprache", and of a series of war documents, "Dio Auswartize Politik des Deutschen Reiches...