Word: neri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Rome last week issued a report that a Lieut. Neri of the Italian Air Force had streaked around Lake Garda in a seaplane at 463.26 m. p. h. Fastest speed heretofore recorded was 408.8 m. p. h. by Lieut. George H. Stainforth of Britain's Royal Air Force as an aftermath to last year's Schneider Trophy Race. Lieut. Neri's trial was unofficial...
...eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York...
...accommodate the pious duck hunters of Albuquerque, N. Mex., who foray before dawn, Father Thomas H. Bortell of San Felipe de Neri Church there, announced last week that special mass would be celebrated at 4:30 a. m. on All Saints' Day and Sundays during the duck season. Worshippers were invited to appear in gunning togs...