Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
...Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair in which the Crown Governor once sat, smiled at an inscription above an arch in the south wall of the piazza: "Her Majesty Queen Anne Her Royall Capitol." A reception and luncheon given by Mr. Rockefeller and a Legislative tour of restored private homes and public buildings concluded Williamsburg's biggest day since 1779, when the capital moved to Richmond...
...fight was held in the beautiful Piazza Di Siena, an outdoor amphitheatre in the centre of Rome's public gardens. Il Duce was there in a ringside box with his two sons. He exchanged the Fascist salute with Carnera as the man-mountain lumbered into the ring. Then Carnera began battering Uzcudun. He battered him until Uzcudun's face was raw meat. In the sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd...
...procession of automobiles, with Mussolini & Balbo riding in the first one, took the officers & crew into Rome along Streets carpeted with laurel branches. A continuous blizzard of flowers and confetti all but buried the cavalcade. At the Piazza Colonna General Balbo made a speech: "We are humble soldiers of the great chief in whose name it is sweet and easy to win victory...
...Piazza doesn't think we're made of the right stuff over here he better put on his black shirt, pick up his guitar and go back to Venice and paddle his gondola...