Word: padua
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...movie could hardly miss being top-notch. All the popular favorites of the show, "Wunderbar," "So in Love," and "Were Thine That Special Face," are, as might be expected, given the full treatment. More surprising, however, Petruchio's lusty songs, "I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua," and "Where is the Life that Late I've Led," escaped the Hollywood blue pencil...
...Broadway show came excitingly to life because the audience felt itself transported through time to Shakespeare's Padua. The film merely tries to carry the audience back to old Broadway, but somehow, at the final curtain, it is still esthetically blundering around somewhere on the far side of the George Washington Bridge...
Live Forever. The visitors came from universities all over the world. There was Oxford's red, Hamburg's blue, Padua's ermine, the Sorbonne's yellow, white tie and tails from Harvard and Princeton. In the face of such a gathering, Salamanca should have been pleased-except for the irrepressible ghost of Miguel de Unamuno...
...price of illegitimacy can be high and Cardano's enemies made him pay it. For years they denied him membership in the College of Physicians in Milan, and thus the right to practice medicine in his home town. Cardano moved to a village near Padua for a while, but could not support his family, either as a country doctor or by gambling. Back in Milan, however, he began to lecture, write and debate with such skill and vehemence that he won the right to practice, finally rose to such eminence that kings and archbishops solicited his services...
...together with a native fishing fleet, carried out a Dunkirk-like evacuation of the flooded areas. At week's end, 200,000 homeless Italians were queueing up for meals before Italian army field kitchens, and sleeping in jammed schools, churches and homes in such fabled cities as Verona, Padua, Vicinza and Cremona...