Word: umbertos
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...Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope. He was oblivious of such adult troubles, having just got over a nasty case of chickenpox...
...kind of merchandise at fair prices, especially clothing, is a rarity in rackety-rax Rome. So is Swiss-born George Bloch. Last week the combination produced a riot on the Corso Umberto...
...that milled into the Corso Umberto I were many who had foregone New Year's festivities in favor of a new shirt or a pair of cotton drawers. Carabinieri, forming a half hedgehog around the store, issued numbered admission tickets. Vulturous black marketeers swooped on the scene to hawk phony tickets at $8 apiece...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...
That night in their newspapers Romans read of extraordinary events at Umberto's Castel Porziano estate south of Rome. The story: forest fires had broken out simultaneously at several points, apparently set to trap Umberto's son, the eight-year-old Prince of Naples...