Word: palazzos
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From the long marble steps in front of Venice's railway station, little King Vittorio Emmanuele stepped into a gaily beflagged launch and chuffed off down the serpentine Grand Canal to the Palazzo Pesaro. Behind the palace's mooring poles stood Signor Mario Alvera, Podesta (Mayor) of Venice, and Professor Nino Barbantini, director of The Modern Art Gallery. Together they led their King through the greatest collection ever assembled of the works of Venice's greatest painter, Tiziano Vecelli...
...scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child...
...square off these matters took 90 minutes. At that point the two statesmen had achieved much, plenty to warrant the "high spirits" in which they were observed to sit down to lunch in Palazzo Quirinale with massive Queen Elena between them and minute King Vittorio Emanuele on the Frenchman's left...
That night there was a bigger banquet, this time in Palazzo Venezia, with over 1,000 carefully checked guests. After all the real triumph of last week was the fact that Pierre Laval was actually in Rome-the first French Cabinet Minister to take that inevitable road since...
That evening at 7 o'clock the long table in Palazzo Venezia was piled with pacts and protocols. All were signed with celerity by Mussolini and Laval, after which correspondents spent a frantic evening cabling summaries. In sum France and Italy agreed: 1) that Italy will receive some 58,000 sq. mi. of French African territory, also a share in the French-controlled strategic railway which dominates Abyssinia, and an outlet providing Italy with a port on the Gulf of Aden; 2) that Italy will aid France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments...