Word: livorno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy will import such valuable potential wartime supplies as naphtha and manganese, vital peacetime products such as coal, lumber, wheat and barley. Symbolic of their new pocketbook friendship was the launching at Livorno last week of a small destroyer, Italian-built for the Russian Navy...
...most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released her husband died. Widowed Elizabeth Seton became a convert...
...Livornese macaroni maker, 34-year-old Masini worked once as a stevedore, then as a mechanic, was sent to Milan by admiring townsmen. He claims that he never took a singing lesson, that the Milanese taught him only repertory. He made a debut in Livorno (Tosca) in 1928 and has sung since at La Scala and other leading European opera-houses...
...Helene Mayer, has always been won by Easterners, was one indication of fencing's spreading vogue. An even more spectacular one has been provided this winter by the presence in New York of Aldo Nadi. Aldo Nadi is a sleek, suave and almost incredibly elegant young man from Livorno, Italy, who makes no secret of the fact that he is the best fencer in the world...
...Livorno, in Tuscany, is the home of leghorn hats and the fencing school where Aide's father, Beppe, has been coaching Italian swordsmen for half a century. Beppe Nadi was the best teacher of his time. Aldo's older brother, Nedo, who visited the U. S. in 1930, was considered the finest fencer in the world when he retired two years ago. Reaching his peak after 25 years of vigorous training, Aldo Nadi inherited the family title at 34. Fencing experts agree that he is not only the equal of his brother but conceivably the most effective swrordsman...