Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow Thomas is an extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended...
...content of the draft treaty as it stands today (subject to minor alterations before it is made public and offered for ratification in London and in Rome) was scooped last week by famed "Augur" (see p. 55). The regular press services soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative after Italy...
...world is the annual Thousand Mile automobile race round Italy- from Brescia to Brescia, over roads dotted with ordinary traffic and lined with thousands of spectators. When, during the race last week, two of the 143 roaring racers zoomed off the road, killing ten bystanders and injuring 32, the Italian Government decreed an end to the race they instituted twelve years ago as a test of speed and daring...
...remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow was the fact that Poliakoff served the Times twelve of his 20 journalistic years, and since deserting...
...brilliant, self-assured, courteous Russian-Jewish gentleman who has ingratiated himself with the most impeccable diplomatic connections in Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British-Italian rapprochement...