Word: tommaso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a sculptor. All six of his sons followed his example: Ferucchio, now 73 and back in Italy; Furio, 71, specialist in animal figures; Tommaso, 69, summering last week at Far Rockaway, L. I.; Attilio, 67, foremost sculptor of the brothers; Horatio, 65, another animal specialist; Guitilio, 63, marble carver, critic and the firm's businessman. All but Ferucchio are now U. S. citizens...
Recently the President of the academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor...
Married. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned...