Word: savoyism
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...Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...
...small, red "alert" sign flashes on movie screens. In smoky, crowded London pubs the beer-drinking, the talk go on. Occasionally an American soldier wanders outdoors to watch the lightning of the guns. Diners at the Savoy barely hear, above the music of Carroll Gibbons' orchestra, the noise of the sirens and the batteries. British night fighters go up, their new searchlights probing the night. Londoners tell each other: "It will be all over in a half-hour." Occasionally, they pay for their calm carelessness with their lives...
...price and earned a 5 to 10% commission on the rents paid by guests he brought in (one was Glandmaster Serge Voronoff) But the war boom in the hotel busines broke it all up. The Archduke got a job with a brokerage house, moved across the street to the Savoy-Plaza...
From the politely raffish Deanery to the swank Savoy, there was moaning at London bars last week. U.S. Army officers quartered in London had some bad news. The Army had amputated their allowances: $6 a day for housing; $1.25 a day plus $21 a month for food. It was going to take over the rooming and eating business, operate on a more economical and space-saving scale...
...King's Men. The King of Italy is a small man with a Savoy chin, a fat income, an unfortunate record, and the backing of constitutionality as interpreted by the Allied military mission which operates in the present "capital" of Italy. Badoglio has the stocky build of a peasant, the twinkling blue eyes of Northern Italy, a soldier's sense of duty and the current sympathy of U.S. and British military men and diplomats...