Word: venetian
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...piccolo (a little one), the baby was un povero piccolo (a poor little one), and the cause of the accident was non bene accertate (not precisely known). Editor Count Dalla Torre weighs 186 Ibs. ; is blond, stocky, quick at gestures, intelligent but slow of mind. Of ancient Venetian lineage, he has been a practicing newspaper man nearly all his life. Sur rounded by Italy, he edits in a little isle of refuge from Fascist censorship, says anything he and the Pope pleases, but knows that if he goes too far copies des tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly...
...wealth that he could catch the golden fish. When he succeeded, found himself with heaps of glittering bullion, he asked three strangers what lands to seek. A Varangian sang of his bleak country, a Hindu sang of India (here in the opera comes the long-suffering "Song"), but a Venetian tempted him most...
...dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered...
Public attention was diverted by the appearance of Boxer Carnera in the ring, his huge Venetian tummy modestly covered by a straining, skintight singlet purchased at a nearby haberdashery...
...little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...