Word: slenderness
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...created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound...
...gossips insistently repeated last week was that fat Fernando had not really tried to kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
When people see an advertising sign in which the letters or designs are formed by slender glowing glass tubes, they may know at once that it is a neon light sign. Although effective as displays, these lights are expensive because of the high voltages necessary to start them glowing. Last week Raymond R. Machlett, 30, Manhattan electrical engineer who, when he was 26, was one of the first to develop a commercially satisfactory Neon tube, announced that by altering the construction slightly, he had been able to light a neon lamp with a 220-volt current, the ordinary household voltage...
...Detroit, a young, short, slender, redhaired Irishman prepared last week to take over the Mayor's office. He had won the extraordinary election required by the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles (TIME, Aug. 4). The redhaired Irishman was a "dark horse" who entered the race backed by the Hearst-owned Detroit Times, opposed by the Detroit-owned News and Free Press. He was Frank Murphy, 37, recently resigned Judge of the Recorder's Court, onetime Assistant U. S. District Attorney, voluble orator. His friends called him "the Al Smith of Detroit." He polled 106,203 votes. Recalled Mayor...
...last week an army airplane piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker carried Hanford MacNider, Iowa banker, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, from Washington to Ottawa, where he presented his credentials as U. S. Minister to tall, slender, white-whiskered Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron of Ration, Governor-General of Canada. Before he left Washington, Minister MacNider had been thoroughly coached by President Hoover on the major problems at issue between the U. S. and Canada...