Word: umberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less to do than other men, most Kings & Crown Princes are practical jokers. Thus Edward of Wales once sat down on the Royal Spanish "squirt bench," was soused by streams of water from concealed nozzles (TIME, May 30, 1927). Recently Naples learned of an elaborate joke which Crown Prince Umberto has been playing off & on at night ever since he and his Belgian-born Crown Princess moved into their ancient but gorgeously refurbished palace overlooking Naples' blue...
...even Italians know, Her Royal Highness and His Royal Highness got on each other's nerves from the first. To tease his wife and guests at the Palace, joking Prince Umberto said that it was haunted, that ghostly footsteps could be heard at night. They have been heard. Naples laughed last week with her popular practical joker. His Royal Highness had been making "ghost footsteps" by letting loose in the Palace at night a cat with walnut shells tied to its feet...
Bomber Bovone explained to the tribunal last week that the "antiFascist concentration" in Paris had offered $50,000 for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, $5,000 for Crown Prince Umberto, lesser amounts for members of the Grand Fascist Council. He said he had no personal fondness for assassination, but found that the bombing business enabled him to support his mistress in luxurious style. Sbardellotto professed to be an idealist, announced that he was carrying on the work of the executed Michele Schirru. He said he had been chosen to kill the Premier by lots cast in Brussels. Had Signor Mussolini...
...help Comrade Pourmal make giant gas bags with the abandon of a lusty infant blowing bubbles, Italy's famed General Umberto Nobile will shortly arrive in Moscow, will become the technical brains behind Russia's balloon blowing...
...Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September 1933, sail to a base at Framheim on the Bay of Whales, from there fly east without stop over a 1,450-mi. route, then back again, bisecting the Antarctic Continent. Purposes...