Word: puglia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giuseppe Cosulich, U. S. agent for the Cosulich Line, Italian shipping concern, last week confirmed reports of the purchase by his family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...
...shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant soul. The home of d' Annunzio is a nestling spot for the prodigious and the absurd. That no spiritually played piano has previously been reported there...
When Mme. d' Annunzio (the Princess Monte Neyoso, from whom he has been "separated" for nearly 30 years) made one of her infrequent visits to Gardone last week, she was received with a salute of five guns from the Puglia...
Cannon Shots. Famed poet-patriot-playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio mounted to the prow of the desiccated Italian battleship Puglia, which the Fascist Government has had placed upon the lawn of his estate at Lake Garda, Italy. From that vantage point he exulted in the threats which Mussolini had loosed at Rome. Raising his right arm straight before him at an angle of 45 degrees (the Fascist salute), he gave the signal for a salute of 27 guns, which promptly boomed from the cannon of the Puglia... Then he telegraphed "congratulations from the prow of the Puglia" to Mussolini...
...simple! To honor Signor d'Annunzio and to commemorate his heroism at Fiume, the Italian Government has presented him with the battleship Puglia. High and dry upon his lawn, it is ever ready to fire a broadside in honor of Signor d'Annunzio's distinguished guests...