Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Mussolini sped up the valley of the Tiber from Rome last week-up and up to crag-defended Perugia, the capital of Umbria. There he conjured a vision of sea power before men whose lives and thoughts are among mountains. Il Duce del Fascismo, smoldering-eyed, retold the ignominy of Rome before Carthage in the days when "Romans could not even wash their hands in the Mediterranean without permission from the Carthaginians...
Mishaps. Scarcely had Her Rumanian Majesty settled down to the journey than she remembered having left a vial of "seasickness pills" on her dressing table at Bucharest. Since her forthcoming voyage to the U. S. looms as the Queen's first long sea journey, she had attached great importance to this particular vial of pills, compounded especially by a Florentine pharmacist. Soon, however, Her Majesty was reassured. Hasty telegraphing effected the despatch of the pills by airplane to Paris...
...poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign her to the indignities of poverty. When she felt her time upon her, she stole off alone to a Pacific headland, to watch dawn break over the sea...
...author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath...
Author Dobie "devoted his daily hours to insurance" until he was 35. Now, at 45, he has written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...