Word: umbertos
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Laymen found it easiest to grasp the work of such semi-abstractionists as Italian Sculptor Umberto Boccieni, who in 1913 paraphrased the Louvre's famed Winged Victory with a statue of a striding form in which the muscles are whipped out into streamlined forms. Its title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space...
...graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee was George V's particular friend and protege George II, the newly restored King...
Since Italy has to import nearly all her paper pulp, the Dictator merged all his country's cellulose and paper firms last week "for coordination and acceleration of production"' Wealthy Italians, accustomed to write on notepaper folded in sheets of four or eight surfaces, followed Crown Prince Umberto who cut himself down recently to chits of one sheet. Last week H. R. H. weeded out of his peacocky wardrobe all suits and haberdashery from Sanctionist countries, ordered new royal gear 100% Italian. Next the vast gardens of his palace at Turin were plowed up at his orders, sown...
...present Mrs. Nancy May Palmer Christy. In 1921 he felt himself sufficiently secure financially to give up illustrating and strike out as a painter of celebrities. Since then he has heard Benito Mussolini play the violin, has dined with Marie of Rumania, has made recognizable likenesses of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Rainey, Will Hays, Lawrence Tibbett, Amelia Earhart, hundreds of others. Always such organizations as the Red Cross, the Warm Springs Foundation, the Will Rogers Memorial can count on a free Christy poster for their campaigns. They are all practically the same...
...Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline up from 85? per gal. to $1.10 last week, Italy's mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto combined patriotism with the renowned thrift of his Royal Family by announcing that he and the Crown Princess will hereafter use not more than two of their motor cars. An English governess who has cared for any number of Italian royal infants and who had settled down in the Palace...