Word: leghorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious...
...Vancouver, B. C. a white leghorn hen was sold for $500. She had laid 230 eggs in 234 days...
...Indisputable evidence exists that the broad outlines of the Italo-Albanian treaty were drawn by these two statesmen [Premier Mussolini and the British Foreign Seccretary Sir Austen Chamberlain] during their famous meeting on Chamberlain's yacht* off the Italian coast at Leghorn in early October" (TIME, Oct. 11). 2) The previous British policy of upholding Albanian independence was scrapped as long ago as last June, when the British Minister to Albania, William O'Reilly, and Mr. Robert Parr, chargé d'affaires for many years, were both recalled from Albania and succeeded by the present Minister, William Seeds. 3) The Italian...
...Story.* Out of the tempestuous waters of Leghorn Harbor and in upon the pitching deck of the U. S. clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost...
...books in the rescued youth's velveteen coat pockets, and by characteristic sentiments on liberty, death, diet and various conventions including matrimony which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...