Word: savoyism
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...girls traveled light (three suits and two dresses apiece). Their pay: $10 a day for expenses. For two months they toured England and Ireland, giving two or three shows a day, six days a week, for soldiers, sailors, factory workers. Each Sunday they returned to London's Savoy, washed their underwear, flopped into...
Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
Manhattan's quietly swank Savoy-Plaza Café Lounge was last week doing the biggest business in its history as a nightspot. Its Mondays had begun to look like Saturdays. No opulent floor show was packing in the customers. The attraction was the face and the shyly sultry singing of a milk-chocolate-colored Brooklyn girl, Lena Horne...
Bomb-panicked families in Turin brushed aside the call of destiny, left their war jobs and trudged, across Alpine snows to Savoy and the French Riviera. They took their money out of the banks, tossed away their Party badges, spread their panic like a disease. From Turin south to Naples and on to Sicily the mass evacuation of city dwellers strained Italian railways. They carried bundles on their shoulders, slept in stables, begged food from farmers...
Genghis Khan fought his last important campaign when he was 42. Gustavus Adolphus was 38 when he was killed at the battle of Lützen. Eugene of Savoy was 34 when he beat the Turks at Zenta; he was 46 at Malplaquet; he was 53 at Peterwardein. Marlborough fought his last battle with Eugene...