Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hastily prepared, one for the body of Astrid, the other for Leopold alone. Dressed in a plain black suit, his jaw taped, his arm in a white sling, the King entered the car early in the evening, waited in the yards until the St. Gothard Express chuffed in from Milan. All through the night, as the train streaked across Europe, the King sat in his car with only his Premier and his secretary for company. Early next morning a squadron of cavalry led the body of Queen Astrid back through the streets of Brussels...
Thus last week did disaster overtake Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) for the fifth time in seven months, the third time in one week. Among the dead passengers on the Milan-Amsterdam plane were Louis Mariano Nesbitt, British mining engineer and author of Hell-Hole of Creation (i. e. Ethiopia), and Arthur George Watts, British artist and cartoonist...
Meanwhile the Kingdom of Peter was settling down last week under the new Cabinet of Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch. Like nearly all his predecessors, new Premier Stoyadinovitch is of the ruling Serbian caste but pledged to administer Yugoslavia with due regard for her Croat, Slovene, Moslem and other assorted minorities. This time the Moslems have consented to enter His Majesty's Government, with Bosnian Moslem Mehmed Spaho strutting last week as Minister of Communications. The Croats, traditionally suppressed and embittered boycotters of every government at Belgrade, were for once benevolently on the fence, inclined to give Premier Stoyadinovitch a chance...
...Milan the contents of Gabriele d'Annunzio's new book entitled One Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages of the Secret of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Who Is Now Tempted to Die, were revealed: 1) introduction...
...ancient reigning houses in Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua...