Word: milan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, in the Augusteo Concert Hall built inside the ancient tomb of the Emperor Augustus, important listeners were her Majesty Queen Helena of Italy, Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi, Governor of Rome and U. S. Ambassador John Work Garrett. As it had in Paris, Zurich, Milan and Turin the press proclaimed the orchestra the greatest in existence, Toscanini the greatest of conductors...
...people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London. In 1630, 80,000 perished in Milan. Between 1896 and 1917 it killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci of bubonic plague,* very seldom does a case now appear in the U. S. Rats, ground squirrels (the chief cause in California) and other rodents carry the germ...
...poor nigger," reverted to type, because he did not know anything else to do. The Author. Orio Vergani is 31 years old, is an Italian. Onetime manager of Dramatist Luigo Pirandello's theatre in Rome, he is the author of six books, is a journalist on Milan's Corriere delta Sera, likes boxing, traveling, the cinema. In 1922 he went to Paris to see the championship bout between Frenchman Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki, onetime Senegalese phenomenon; he became interested in Battling Siki, modeled George Boykin after...
...stepped the morning-coated, silk-hatted bridegroom, deferentially escorting the Countess Costanzo Ciano, his mother. From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
...orchestra, made the mistake of not practicing on shipboard. Philharmonic players intended to profit by that experience, practice daily that no brass-players may be handicapped by sore lips at the opening concert. In Paris, on May 3, the Orchestra was to play first, go thence to Zurich, Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, London. Already houses are sold out all along the way but, regardless, it is estimated that before the tour is over the cost to Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay and other Philharmonic directors will be some...