Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci made famous by failure was finally achieved. In Milan, where Leonardo experimented with flapping wings 400 years ago, Pilot Vittorio Bonomi took off, flew five-eighths of a mile in a bicycle plane worked only by his own strength...
...Mussolini family last week to fill most of his column ("On the Corso")* in somewhat this wise: Middle-aisling it on Feb. 6 are the Big Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last...
...actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with the Duke of Windsor by telephone to Enzesfeld and a wrong impression was abroad that Mrs. Simpson might be sharing in the financial returns of her relative's exploit...
...dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin Thorborg, tall young Swede whose contralto won her first place at the Stockholm Royal Opera...
...most important speech since he conquered Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini in Milan last week urged France and England to scrap what he considers their political shibboleths and join Italy and Germany in ultimately un-Bolshevizing Russia. II Duce postulated that "Bolshevism is only super-Capitalism of a State carried to the most ferocious extreme. . . . The time has come to put an end to it!" He postulated further: "If there is a country where concrete, real and substantial Democracy has been realized, this country is Italy of the Fascist...