Word: duilio
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...That was not very fast. Since Nazi bombers retired to Russia, the British Fleet has had a better time of it. Last week British submarines drove tin fish into a 10,000-ton Italian heavy cruiser; and into a big Italian liner, believed to be the 23,635-ton Duilio and into the 11,398-ton Esperia; planes of the Fleet Air Arm torpedoed and destroyed an Italian destroyer off Tripoli; others bombed merchant ships in Tripoli harbor...
Sportsmen, cinemaddicts joined the mayor's handshakers to welcome the Italian soccer team arriving on the Duilio. Reasons: They are the European champions of this year's Olympics†; Pietro Pastore, of their number, is reputedly indistinguishable from the late Rudolph Valentino...
...Commission embarked at Naples aboard the Duilio, Italians considered it a good omen that Count Volpi is, strangely enough, "a self-made business man." His title was conferred upon him by King Vittorio Emanuele as a reward for his highly successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli. And it is well known that as a boy he was obliged to earn his own living as the result of financial reverses which had befallen his family...
...guns of the dreadnought Duilio were booming and belching smoke, fire and steel. In the turret, a boom and a belch sounded above the rest: a 305-millimetre* gun had blown up: 7 were killed, 30 wounded. The ship immediately caught fire. The magazines were flooded as a precautionary measure but the fire was extinguished before irreparable damage was caused. The accident was due to a backfire into an imperfectly closed breach...
...Duilio (Italian)−Amos Pinchot (brother of Pennsylvania's Governor), with his son Gifford...