Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornate gates of the Villa Vittoriale on the western slopes of Lake Garda one day last week rumbled a gun carriage bearing the body of Italy's poet, prince, lover, soldier and No. 1 eccentric, 74-year-old Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Monte Nevoso, who had died two days before. Beside the carriage walked Premier Mussolini and the poet's estranged wife, the Duchesse of Gallese. Up the tortuous, winding road to Gardone di Sopra wound the procession, through lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest...
Fascism. Naturally D'Annunzio was a Fascist-indeed he considered himself Fascist No. 1, having been Dictator (even though only in Fiume) before Mussolini Il Duce from the first saw that the Poet-Prince could never be a serious rival, encouraged him to burst forth on all occasions with poetic Fascism at its most passionate heat, loaded him with honors and finally last year made D'Annunzio President of the Royal Italian Academy (TIME...
...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
...special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
Died. Gabriele d'Annunzio ("The Archangel Gabriel"), 74, great Italian poet, patriot, lover, soldier and mystic; of a brain hemorrhage; at his fortified Villa Vittoriale on Lake Garda. He lost an eye as a war-time aviator, created an international crisis after the Armistice by seizing the Austrian seaport of Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...