Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was but the slightest quiver in the Eastern part of Sicily one day last week. The silvery olive trees rustled for a moment although there was no wind. By the eastern coast, the Mediterranean waters gulped uneasily...
Perceiving that the Regent (now Emperor) of Abyssinia might yield to Royalty what he would not to statesmen, Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This...
Fortunately the Carrara precipice overhangs blue Mediterranean wavelets. A ship can carry what a railway car cannot. And from the Mediterranean a ship, not too big, may ascend the River Tiber, even to Eternal Rome...
...work in the Selfridge store for the rich old man. Thus Jacques de Sibour and his wife lived in Lansdowne House, the grand and picture-filled castle in the centre of London. When Jacques got a two weeks holiday, they toured all about the Mediterranean in a tiny airplane. When they were granted a longer vacation they flew to Abyssinia and built a house in the desperate mountains...
...during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...