Word: treviso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which she had paid $30,000, was informed by Iviglia's office that she owned "a very handsome instrument dating back to about 1800 and worth not more than...
...magisterial term of occupation in Japan, Korea was bound to be a letdown. The sketchy, querulous Korean narrative adds little to the public record. At Inchon, notes Author Willoughby, MacArthur took the North Koreans in the rear "in the classical Napoleonic pattern"-just like the dazzled Austrians at Treviso. But the Supreme Commander pushed on, never believing that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that...
Rise of a Country Priest. The Bishop of Treviso surprised everyone and irritated some by making young Don Sarto a canon-a post hitherto held exclusively by noblemen. In his first speech before the Treviso seminary as its spiritual instructor he said: "I am no professor, just a country priest, whom God has most unaccountably brought among you. Remember that study and knowledge and science, excellent things in themselves, are perverted if they become objects of pride...