Word: siena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard (postal); Siena (postal...
...melting pot of millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...
Hollywood people explained that they were putting blocked lire to work. Prince of Foxes, which was being filmed in Florence, Venice, Siena and Rome - and using thousands of extras - would cost $3,000,000 (half of it in U.S. dollars). Anywhere else, according to Producer Darryl Zanuck, it would cost $10,000,000. Zanuck said that he would not "stoop to sweatshop practices . . . We are not in Italy . . . to cash in on another country's depressed condition...
...into the rural south (and recent small-town elections support this claim). He was especially happy over the party's successful proselytizing of the stubbornly conservative "contadini" (peasants), who have everywhere been the Marxists' highest hurdle: "In population percentage our strongest local federation in Italy is in Siena-in the heart of Tuscany's vineyards and olive groves-and I'm not sure there's even a single factory there...
Behind the Siena front in Italy, he decorated the U.S. Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark with the sunburst plaque of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. De Gaulle's point: he was the Frenchman entitled to confer French honors...