Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aldington's Casanova found Henriette -the one real love of his life-in a Venetian canal, where she was drowning. He rescued her, but before he could even sear her lips with a kiss she was whisked home. When he finally found her again she was in a hotel bed. After exchanging commonplaces, they set up housekeeping without benefit of clergy. But one day, for no apparent reason, Casanova was arrested...
...sets in the new revue were possibly even more spectacular than the costumes. For the set of a Venetian palace used for three minutes, the paint alone cost 350,000 francs...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
Through the Venetian blinds of his fifth-floor office in the Ministry of War. Juan Domingo Perón last week looked down upon half-a-million of his countrymen. They shouted "Down with Perón!" "Death to dictatorship!" For three hours, they marched through Buenos Aires' Calle Callos. They whistled, hooted and catcalled. It was Perón's longest raspberry...
...high, airy office in Manila, with the glare of summer Sun cut down by Venetian blinds, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur conferred with General Joseph W. Stilwell. The commander of all Army forces in the Pacific and the commander of all the Army's ground forces had a knotty problem to resolve: how to deploy more than 3,500,000 men for the final onslaught against Japan...