Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have usually done when glory was being dished out, his Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
...guardian" was playing the Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some...
...George Washington's Birthday dinner at the American Club in Paris, attended by the Duke of Windsor and such top-notch French bigwigs as Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin, Mr. Bullitt replied to German and Italian press charges that the U. S. was trying to start a war. With intentional and significant emphasis the Ambassador said: "We are not in the habit of starting wars...
...admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Mantegna's St. George from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice...
Born in the Greenwich Village Italian colony 37 years ago, Anthony Sisti began to draw early, though he says his cafe-keeping father never drew anything but beer from a tap. He began to box in 1917 at a Buffalo, N.Y. gym, and the next year won the amateur bantamweight championship of New York State. From then until 1930 he fought 100 professional bouts, lost 15, earned enough to go to Europe for five years and enough while there to pay tuition at the Florence Academy, where he got his doctor's degree in painting...