Word: piet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor-league convention was held last fortnight in Milwaukee. Most important news was that Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox and Manager Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers had worked a trade: Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, Infielder Tony Piet and Outfielder Dixie Walker of the White Sox for Outfielder Gerald Walker, Third Baseman Marvin Owen and Catcher Mike Tresh of the Tigers. Consensus was that Jimmy Dykes had slipped one over on his old teammate in the biggest deal of the year...
...Milan's La Scala appropriately strutted the proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...
...Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna's Saint George. Benito Mussolini accepted but one rebuff, from the Vatican, which held to its policy that the fine museums in Vatican City...
Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately...
Gradually, painfully, Piet began to find his niche. A friendly planter got him a native housekeeper; her respectful affection and competent managing gave him some degree of comfort. He worked hard, never took a holiday until the doctor made him, saved every guilder. About the time rubber prices began to boom Piet's antlike qualities landed him a really good job on an isolated island. Then his boss catspawed him into marrying a European mistress who was getting troublesome. Piet, who was innocent enough to think the girl was in love with him, was overjoyed, gave his faithful brown...