Word: venetian
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...Venetians had been arguing about a road to the mainland since 1898. Long-range guns made Venice's isolation valueless as a defense. But it was still a pretty sentiment. In 1931 Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove...
...longer "eat anything, anytime,'' if he can no longer ride all day and dance all night, and if he no longer, in a single hour, does everything from buying a Venetian palazzo to scrapping a dozen printing presses and remodeling the fashion pages of Harper's Bazaar, he still spreads his newspapers on the floor beneath him and he can feel that no other publisher is such a power in the land. Even adolescent Hearst-readers feel the reverberations of his career. Did he not always want to be President or make one and were...
Giovanni Pertinax Morosini was born in Venice nearly 100 years ago when the city belonged to Austria. Who his parents were the record does not say, but he always liked to believe that he was descended from the magnificent Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-94), Commander-in-chief of the Venetian Navy...
...Austrians smelt in his Venetian nostrils. As a boy he fled south, joined the bearded Garibaldi's redshirts and took part in their march on Rome. Back in liberated Venice stocky young Morosini was lounging along the narrow calle one day when he saw a gang of roughs attacking a young tourist and his tutor. Giovanni Morosini snapped open the stiletto he always carried and dashed to the rescue. The young tourist was the son of Jay Gould. Tycoon Gould, then secretary of the Erie Railroad, promised young Morosini a job should he ever...
...Very Last Minute actors dressed as British tourists have been nightly "shown around the world," have boasted at sight of each new marvel that something better of the same kind exists in the United Kingdom. On reaching Venice the guide exclaimed. "How fairylike is this Venetian night!" Whereat a Briton stoutly boasted, "The Prince of Wales is even more...