Word: garda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed-boat king-to his list of poet, musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced...
King Vittorio Emanuele unveiled the monument last week. Signor Mussolini, fired to ecstasy by the granite-cut words, telegraphed to d'Annunzio [now in ostentatious retirement on the shores of Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5)]: MAGNIFICENTISSIME SCRIBES...
...Dominus Apostolicus, according to Signor d' Annunzio, finds his palate so agreeably titillated by "cherry elixir" that plans are going forward to erect a "monastery" near D' Annunzio's exotic home on Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5), in which this rare tipple may be produced for ecclesiastical and lay consumption...
...trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
...Gabriele's retreat* on the shores of Lago di Garda is a residence of such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant...