Word: rimini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be "pleased at the way they hid themselves from aerial observers...
...independence, II Duce has nevertheless insisted that the 32-square-mile midget nation, perched on a mountain top in northeastern Italy, should not be a refuge for Fascism's enemies. A few years ago, Benito the Builder obliged the Republic with a new winding electric railroad from Rimini to San Marino and a new boulevard down the middle of the nation to San Marino...
...TIME subscription has been entered for TIMEless Consul Joseph E. Haven, San Marino, San Marino. For the information of generous Reader O'Brien, Joseph Haven is consul to the world's smallest republic (32 sq. mi.), near Rimini in Northern Italy, overlooking the Adriatic. Its chief revenue is postage stamps...
Colonel deBasil's Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo opened last night at the Opera House and continues there through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...
...Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used Dante as the basis for the tone poem which is the ballet's music...