Word: palazzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs. At one point Elsa Maxwell got her licks in by announcing that...
Farewell Salute. Of all the homefarers, Colonel Norman Fiske, U.S. Military Attache, gave America's classic farewell to Italy. Accompanied by Italian detectives, Colonel Fiske drove into sight of Mussolini's Palazzo Venezia, stopped at the tomb honoring Italy's Unknown Soldier. Before his guards could intervene, Colonel Fiske hopped out of the car, stood smartly at attention and said...
With such sultry passages did the onetime French gossip columnist, Magda Fontanges, reveal the story of her passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...
Those best qualified to judge thought him the master versemaker in English of his generation. He lived in a decaying palazzo in Rapallo, on the Mediterranean shore near Genoa. Of his own greatness Ezra Pound had no doubt; he named his son Homer Shakespear Pound, so the story went, "for the crescendo effect." Writers whom he had befriended included a grateful exile, James Joyce, and a sportsman, Ernest Hemingway. His letters, jaggedly typed, jumpy with execrations and wit, walloped out in enormous numbers, were avant-garde currency for 20 years...
...annoyance of his mistress' husband, Byron's rooms at the Palazzo Guiccioli were soon "full of conspirational gear and mysterious documents . . . local liberals." Once, when the police were active, the Gambas even let Byron keep "a bag full of bayonets, some muskets, and some hundreds of cartridges." When the revolt finally fizzled (Byron always suspected it would), Byron, Teresa and the Gambas were exiled, at last settled down at Pisa...