Word: forepart
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury...