Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial before a military tribunal. On that day in Rome arrived the ashes of Anita Garibaldi, wife of Italy's famed liberator. With hundreds of other black-shirted patriots II Duce followed the bier through the streets, then dropped out of the procession within 200 yards of the Piazza di Venezia. Lurking in the Piazza was one Angelo Sbardellotto. In his pockets police found two bombs and a pistol. Pope Pius felicitated the Premier on his escape. Sbardellotto went to trial with Bovone & friends...
...buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...
...Sistine Chapel, in secret, solemn conclave, meets the College of Cardinals. An ugly black stove stands in one corner. Into this go used ballots, and, until a Pope is chosen, handfuls of straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...
...their disposal by Premier Mussolini. At the station in Rome, Il Duce was waiting for them, beaming with pleasure, poking his Fascist yes-men in the ribs. The German statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists on one corner suddenly bellowed HOCH HITLER! as the cortege passed. At the hotel a frock-coated manager proudly told the Chancellor of Germany that he would have the honor of sleeping in the same room once...
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...