Word: umberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them, but here, plodding along in the fog, were half the Princes of Europe. Crown Prince Leopold led the procession with his brother, Prince Charles, and his brother-in-law, Prince Umberto of Italy. The others...
Five years ago Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, went to the rescue of the wrecked airship Italia commanded by General Umberto Nobile, whom he cordially disliked. A French navy seaplane bearing Amundsen and five companions started from Tromso, Norway, towards Spitsbergen. It was never seen again...
...outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched in salute. Then he leaped ashore to be warmly kissed by Il Duce...
Fifty years ago when Gaishi Nagaoka was a young officer at the Military Staff College in Tokyo what he had on his upper lip was just a mustache, not to be mentioned in the same breath with the vast and magnificent brush of His Majesty Umberto I, King of Italy. Time passed. Umberto died. Gaishi Nagaoka became a Major, then a Colonel, then a General and his mustache grew & grew. By the time he retired from active service in 1915 to become the smiling white-winged father of Japanese aviation it was no longer a mustache but a religion...
WITH the publication of "The Past Recaptured," the translation of Marcel Proust's great novel, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," under the title "Remembrance of Things Past," is brought to a close. As the Italian critic Umberto Morra has said, men may imitate parts of it with some success, but the whole will never again be equaled. In the present literary world where few writers and critics have been able to agree about anything, all have joined in their homage to the work of Proust...