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Five minutes later, punctual little King Victor Emmanuel arrived, in the full dress uniform of an Italian General. The instructions to the Deputies had been: "The entrance of the King into the Chamber will be the signal for an enthusiastic outburst of applause." It was. The King marched up and sat down on the throne which had been specially built so that his short legs could reach the floor. Flanking the throne were eight gilded chairs and in each chair a Prince of the blood...
...rare and beautiful woman was Madame la Comtesse Virginie Oldoïni Verasis-Castiglione, famed courtesan of the Second Empire who divided her best years between Piedmont's King Victor Emmanuel and France's Napoleon III. The Countess's costumes, her jewels and their donors provided half the talk at the Court in Paris. Artists fought to paint her. Sculptors modeled her hands, her fingers, her shapely legs, even her ears...
...Lauro de Basis was a convinced idealist," said Salvemini. "He sought to convince King Emmanuel to liberate Italy from Mussolini. One day in October, 1931, he flew over Rome to deluge the city with anti-fascist leaflets. After he sailed into the Roman sky that night he was never heard from again...
...gulped an aspirin tablet on New Year's Day without any idea of whom to thank for the relief. Few days later in Rensselaer, N. Y., the man who introduced aspirin to the U. S. on a commercial scale retired from the active management of Bayer Co. Dr. Emmanuel von Sails, a Swiss from Basle, came to the U. S. during the Spanish War, went to work for a chemical concern in Rensselaer. In 1904 he persuaded the company to start making and marketing acetyl salicylic acid tablets, which were well known in Europe. In 1913 the plant...
...Baltimoreans, Pianist Emmanuel Wad and Playwright Elmer Greensfelder, wrote Swing Low. The title refers not to the hanging but to the recurrence of the spiritual ''Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which impressed the audience as being the finest bit of music in the opera...