Word: piazza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...
...summer sun, climbing toward warm noon, had started the heat waves dancing from the brown Tiber, from the seven ancient hills, from the great stone piazza before St. Peter's, from the dusty brick and weathered marble of the Colosseum and the Forum. Now out of that sun came the sound and the sight Rome had long been spared: the drone of a hostile air fleet, the wings of hostile bombers...
...chant "Doo-chay, Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" urged Mussolini to make an ap pearance. He did. For the first time since Dec. 11, 1941, he lifted up his chin and spoke in the Piazza Venezia...
...Italian, he hailed peasants with a cheery "buon giorno," nodded to Italian soldiers. Inside Rome he "very coldly spent some time visiting the sights of the Eternal City." As British tourists have done for years, he visited the tombs of Keats and Shelley, admired the stairs leading from the Piazza di Spagna, shuddered at the architectural bad taste of the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, roamed happily through the Coliseum and the ancient ruins in the Roman Forum. At last having tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain (which all tourists do to make sure that they will return to Rome), Penny...
...Author. Rochester-born Jerre Mangione, 33, looks Sicilian enough to have posed for one of the statues in a Palermo piazza. Now special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, his first writing job was ghosting love letters for his Mount Allegro relatives in love with women who could not read Italian. Says he of his early reading: "I got most of it done in the seclusion of bathrooms and under beds because my relatives believed too much reading was bound to drive a person insane." He, working his way through Syracuse University, graduated in 1931, went on to magazine...