Word: guido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when she married Baron Guido von Nimptsch, sad-faced, 44-year-old German aristocrat who had lost his personal fortune and was engaged in the champagne business in Manhattan. With him she returned to Germany, was presented to the Kaiser, learned that her husband was heavily in debt, was soon neglected by him. At a ball...
Thence, I to the Germanic Museum at 10 o'clock to hear Dr. Kuhn lecture on "Rubens" and mighty well, too! Peter Paul Rubens, as all do know, be a great 17th century Flemish painter; and, as Guido Reni says: "A fellow who mixes blood with his colors." Yet, I am sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness...
...Justice Pietro de Francisci was mobilized this week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce...
...Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung's favorite stories is about his encounter with President Roosevelt in the White House last spring (TIME, May 15). To Italy's Banking Association soon afterward Eccellenza Jung declared: "I had the honor of stating the attitude of the Duce to the President when he enquired of me as to Italy's attitude on two of the questions which the United States deems of preeminent importance for the London Economic Conference: monetary stabilization and the return of all currencies to a common standard which the United States cannot conceive of as other...
Such eminent men as Professor Cassel of Sweden and Guido Jung of Italy and Albert Janssen, former Minister of Finance in Belgium, as well as George B. Roberts, Economic Adviser of the National City Bank of New York, and Professor O. M. W. Sprague, who was then representing the Bank of England, participated in the work of the gold delegation and in the making of the report...