Word: torlonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
...King-Emperor took the Realmleader not to the Villa Torlonia (the palace in which Mussolini lives on a long rental lease), but to the House of Savoy's majestic Palazzo del Quirinale. * Here Der Führer was lodged in the suite of Crown Prince Umberto, who makes his home in Naples...
Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together...
...Atlas, whose brawny biceps and leopard skin breechclout are familiar to all readers of pulp magazine advertisements.* He stood on a pedestal while below him paraded socialite ladies dressed as Sun, Air, Water, Bananas, Peaches, Carrots & Peas, Tomatoes, Milk, Coffee and Greens. Central figure of "Wealth" was Donna Marina Torlonia, gowned in gold sequins, before whom paraded more socialites representing Travel, Art, and assorted angels with gilded wings. "Happiness" was represented by the Court of Venus. The Goddess of Love was impersonated by Leonora Corona, onetime singer at the Metropolitan Opera. A Texas girl whose costume as Thai...
...more serious girls arrived to inspect the cows, learn what they could of milking's art. Boasted Debutante Carol Prichitt: "I once lived on a farm. . . . You know, it had a house at one end and we used to grow radishes." Only successful rehearsers were Donna Marina Torlonia (who once milked a Philadelphia cow) and Princess Dolly Obolensky (whose family once owned some cows in France). At midnight the cows were wakened from sleep for the contest. Chattering debutantes, dressed in sport clothes, trooped from the dance floor and lined up. Blushing attendants led them...