Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generous, the Government at Rome offered to defray the entire expense of building an electric railway from the nearest Italian junction to the frontier of San Marino. Surely, said Il Duce's agents last week, surely the Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...Regent's Palace, on Monte Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
...cannot define the term "Bull'; but I can best describe it in the words of grand old Sir Boyle Roche, 'The Father of the Irish Bull.' He used to say, 'Supposing you see three cows standing up in a field and one of them lying down, that one is the bull...
Amid green meadows, but perched atop a small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing...
...matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...