Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat race. Beaten by nearly three minutes but grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza. There he found the cold comfort that Seawanhaka custom provides for a defeated challenger: first drink...
...West Side Tennis Club were last week cluttered up twice as much as usual by the mediocre performers who always find their way into the National Championships. For nearly a week the seeded players spent their time trifling with trifling opponents or trifling with each other on the club piazza...
Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...
Rank on rank, Fascist crowds piled into the spacious Piazza Venezia last week to honor the 2687th birthday of Rome. Nervous after an exhausting week in which he had endeavored to balance Italy's lopsided budget by cutting government salaries from 6% to 12%, ordering rents and the prices in government-controlled stores reduced from 12% to 15%, and raising bachelors' income taxes 10% and 25%, Benito Mussolini strode to the balcony to make a speech...
...Frankfort air was heavy with money. When Jacob Henry Schiff arrived in Manhattan the year the Civil War ended he instinctively turned to brokerage and banking for a livelihood. George Fisher Baker got his inspiration from his Uncle John who spent his time lolling on a piazza. Uncle John, it seemed, lived on "interest money." And George F. Baker became the richest, most powerful and most taciturn commercial banker in U. S. history. No other large financial institution in the U. S. could show a record for consistent money-making to match that of the fabulous Baker bank - Manhattan...