Word: franca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicagoans knew them last week as Franca Somigli, Giuseppe Bentonelli and Anna Turkel. All three were young U.S. singers making their débuts with the Chicago Grand Opera...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...