Word: garda
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...country's highest court) discovered a fatal flaw in an Irish arrest warrant. According to an 1851 British law, the warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores of nearby Lake Garda...
...Rumer Godden, effusions like "binding, inescapable, unforgettable" are as common as teacups at a Wednesday bridge luncheon. But breathless rhetoric apparently is the norm for sensible English matrons who desert home and family to live in guilty splendor with pianists on the shores of Italy's Lago di Garda. Maureen and Rossano have no sooner snuggled into his sumptuous Villa Fiorita than her pint-sized son and daughter (Martin Stephens, Elizabeth Dear) arrive. They have paid their fare to Italy by selling the girl's pet pony, but they fully intend to put Mama back in harness. Soon...
...reduce water resistance enormously, permit speeds of up to 90 m.p.h. Japan has a fleet of them. Italy (where the first known hydrofoil was invented some 60 years ago by Enrico Forlanini) has ferry service across the Strait of Messina, also on the Gulf of Naples and Lago di Garda. Hydrofoils are fairly common in the Soviet Union. Others skim along the Riviera and between several islands of the Aegean. Three hydrofoils ferry tourists on the Nile between Aswan and Abu Simbel...
...Renaissance prince, entertaining streams of ambassadors, pilgrims and mistresses. Soon everyone was sick of this sort of stuff, and the Italians thoughtfully provided D'Annunzio with a title and the opportunity of being a live lion in a dead hero's palace, the Vittoriale on Lake Garda...