Word: duchessa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Dauphin arrived his sister, Princess Anne of France, who became the Duchessa delle Puglie of Italy, last year, when she married a cousin of Vittorio Emanuele, King of the Italians. To complete the roster of soi-disant royal guests came, last week, Her Majesty the Dowager ex-Queen Amelie of Portugal and her son ex-King Manoel, whose Realm is now a most turbulent and Dictator-ridden soi-disant Republic (TIME...
...Duchessa D'Aquilanera, a strange ugly vessel of the haughtiest blood in Latin Europe, with an aristocratic limp, a cane between her knees and a prodigious appetite for lawsuits, concerns the Cabala less than her stripling son, who has fallen, as young Romans are expected to fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio...
...next and most astounding assertion was that D'Annunzio is not Italian. Where he got this idea is beyond imagination, D'Annunzio was born at Francavilla, Italy; he is the son of Duchessa Maria Gallese di Roma--she is Italian; he received his education in the College of Prato and University of Rome--both are Italian and in Italy. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber; he is a captain in the Italian army; his speech is Italian; his dress is Italian; his food is Italian; and finally his blood is Italian...
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