Word: doge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byron?Marino Falerio, Doge of Venice (manuscript...
...scheduled to open Jan. 9- the annual National Automobile Show. Entering, pressmen found the lobby of Grand Central Palace transformed into a Venetian Doge's reception parlor. Artists had been busied for weeks with the panoramas. Trees and pottery had been imported, and even special linoleum with grains in imitation of Italian woods, was sent abroad for. In a court of the arts and sciences, immense statues brooded among Etruscan groves...
...Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace; $4,300 for Man Seated by a Stream, "undoubtedly the most expensive man," said the London Evening News, "who ever sat by a stream...
Even a hundred years ago Mark Twains fellow innocent remembered Venice not for the Doge's Palace or the Grand Canal, but for the back cotton socks he bought there. Today the swarthy gondoliers are waging a last desperate struggle, with picketers instead of stilettos, to keep motor boat exhausts from barking all night at the inoffensive Venation moon. This malady of tourists gangrene which has brought railroads in to Venice and made Paris mostly English, is attacking the simple yodelers of the Swiss mountains...
...Venice was a republic for 1,100 years, the first doge being elected in 697. The end of her independence came with Napoleon's Austrian campaign...