Word: imperiale
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¶Raphael's famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de' Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered in Florence in 1867, was sold to the Russian Imperial family, cost Collector Bache $600,000 in 1929.
In 1921 Armand Hammer went to Russia and, realizing that there is almost nothing a bureaucracy needs so much as pencils, began to manufacture them for the newly established Soviet Government. He made such good pencils that grateful Bolsheviks sent him back to the U.S. to unload their greatest white...
"Canada is simply one more small nation in a world dominated by the great powers. And we know that our future safety lies ultimately not inside any imperial orbit, not inside any American sphere of influence. It lies in the creation of a larger system of international law & order inside...
Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring...
Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases...