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Word: italianity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Italy, busy celebrating the 16th anniversary of the March on Rome, last week made two moves to bind what Italians call their ''fourth shore," the African colony of Libya 350 miles across the Mediterranean, closer to the mother country. The Fascist Grand Council decreed that Libya is henceforth part of Italy proper. Its four provinces, organized in 1934, are now political equals of the Italian provinces and will be represented at Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fourth Shore | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Only restaurant in Harvard Square specializing in Italian food. Entirely remodeled under new management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINE and DANCE | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

Britain, too, was busy courting the dictator powers, to the approval of U. S. Ambassador Kennedy. It was significant that King George & Queen Elizabeth lunched the Italian Crown Princess at Buckingham Palace last week-something which would have been unthinkable before the Big Four got together at Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: State-of-the-World | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Commodore and Christopher | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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