Word: palazzos
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...roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from the central balcony of Benito Mussolini's huge Palazzo Venezia as signal that the Grand Council was meeting. Before seeing Mussolini, Premier Goring paid a little call which made oldtime diplomats smile. In Rome, visiting his father-in-law, was handsome young Prince Philip of Hesse. Premier Göring brought him word that Adolf Hitler had just appointed...
...longer "eat anything, anytime,'' if he can no longer ride all day and dance all night, and if he no longer, in a single hour, does everything from buying a Venetian palazzo to scrapping a dozen printing presses and remodeling the fashion pages of Harper's Bazaar, he still spreads his newspapers on the floor beneath him and he can feel that no other publisher is such a power in the land. Even adolescent Hearst-readers feel the reverberations of his career. Did he not always want to be President or make one and were...
...Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze angels in the hall clutching armfuls of electric bulbs; paintings, tapestries, cabinets of jade and precious stones...
Nearly 40 years ago Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. and his sister-in-law Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont) fought a battle for the leadership of the Vanderbilt Clan. Their respective daughters Gertrude and Consuelo were unwilling pawns. Cornelius moved first by building an enormous renaissance palazzo known as "The Breakers," giving his gawky, good-natured daughter Gertrude a magnificent Newport coming-out party. Mrs. Willie K. countered that by marrying her quiet, handsome daughter Consuelo to Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and giving New York the most widely discussed wedding it had ever...
...loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome to include "the greatest assemblage of armed forces that the Eternal City has seen for two milleniums!" Grandiose, this expansion took place at a session of the Fascist Grand Council in that intoxicating chamber at the Palazzo Yenezia, Grandpa Mussolini's "World Map Room...