Word: venetia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...
...Muller's arms flailed the air, there arose 1 mighty, measured yell: N N N N A A A A V V V V Y Y Y Y Nay-vee! Holy Father! Holy Father! Holy Father! As had Benito Mussolini when he got similar acclaim at the Palazzo Venetia, Pius XI recovered from the shock quickly and gracefully. He called "Hank" Muller to him for congratulations, smilingly waved down at 399 red, grinning faces...
...Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...