Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strength. When Ike slipped through a butler's pantry into the Italian Room of the St. Francis, Washington newsmen who had been away covering the conventions were astonished by the change that two weeks had made in his looks and outlook. He seemed muscular, his normally high color had returned, his eyes had brightened. Harold Stassen, said the President, had become "absolutely convinced that the majority of the delegates want Nixon," and had therefore asked to "second the nomination of the Vice President...
...deeply moving Andrea Doria story recalls an almost identical tragedy that occurred on Jan. 23, 1909, when the outbound steamship Republic was rammed in a heavy fog off Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when...
...history. Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady...
...ITALIAN AUTO BOOM pushed record first-half '56 production 15% ahead of last year, 30% over '54. Fiat leads the way, finds that its baby "600" is gaining favor even in Volkswagen Germany...
...mistress (1912-14), wife (1914 until his death in 1930) and muse of British Novelist D.H. (Lady Chatterley's Lover) Lawrence, presumed model for the wife of Mark Rampion, Aldous Huxley's fictional portrait of Lawrence in Point Counter Point, and wife (since 1950) of Angelino Ravagli, Italian painter and ceramist; of a stroke; in Taos...