Word: guido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkably fine example of the early illustrated book, a copy of "The Book of Troy" by Guido delle Colonne, printed at Augsburg with the type of Gunther Zainer, about 1478, has just been acquired by Harvard University. The only other recorded copy of the book is in the Dresden State Library...
...grata to this senatorial group was exemplified by him last week in a Manhattan speech to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he declared that the Federal Government should "confine itself to a minimum of interference" with the water power industry and leave regulation to the States. Prof. Guido Hugo Marx of Stanford University promptly flayed him for non-feasance of duty. Power also made the following Washington news last week: Muscle Shoals. The House and Senate deadlock on this legislative antiquity seemed near the breaking point. Reports spread that the House, which has long held out for private...
Strapped to four chairs the condemned were set up with their backs to a firing squad which proceeded to aim at the bases of their spines. Present were General Guido Cristini, President of the Facist Supreme Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, and his fellow judges. This was their third execution, the Death sentence having been revived in Italy for crimes against the State in 1927. With set, stern Facist faces they watched until 5:43 a. m. when the rifles cracked out shots in the back-Italy's idea of a supremely disgraceful Death. Throughout Jugoslavia...
Died. General William Verbeck, 69, head of Manlius Military School in Manlius, N. Y., onetime (1910-11) national commander of the Boy Scouts of America, onetime Adjutant-General of New York, son of the late Dr. Guido Fridolin Verbeck who founded the Kyushu Imperial University at Fukuoka, Japan; suddenly, at his home in Manlius...
...fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity of the Virgin (Anni Rutz). Reported Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last moment without a dash...