Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calhouns very angry and it also angers the Hanks family, many of whom still live here. Once years ago my father and Mr. Rhett Turnipseed asked Mr. John Edward Calhoun if it were true that Calhoun were Lincoln's father-John Edward Calhoun was sitting on the front piazza of the Calhoun mansion and he picked up a straight chair and said furiously to my father and Mr. Turnipseed, "Young gentlemen, you have been misinformed...
...office to mail letters to their sweeties back home. They went to the well-stocked ordnance depot to get what they needed-anything from a new engine for a tank to a new stopper for a canteen. In a half-wrecked house on a square which someone had renamed Piazza Brown others listened to a phonograph grotesquely grinding out their favorite, Waltzing Matilda. A camouflage unit, fresh out of paint, improvised with captured Italian coffee (undrinkable), tomato sauce (condemned) and flour paste (plentiful...
While the Fascist Party systematically tried to stir up anti-British feeling and crowds of students demonstrated in almost every Italian city, officially Italy did nothing. At a mass meeting in the Piazza Venezia to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Italian Empire, Benito Mussolini told a none too enthusiastic crowd: "After my speeches you must accustom yourself to my silence. Only facts will break...
...last week Benito Mussolini was a thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce...
When they were in circulation, he used to call reporters to his home and ride like mad up & down before them to demonstrate his soundness. But of late he has appeared less in public than he used to, has not spoken from the Piazza Venezia balcony since October, almost never receives the press. Last autumn for the first time in many years he failed to appear-stripped to the waist, swinging a pitchfork, sweating up his massive chest-at the Pontine Marshes harvest...