Word: venetian
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...other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...
Married. Attilio Teruzzi, Under Secretary of State for Internal Affairs in the Mussolini Cabinet, to Lillian Lorma, U. S. singer. Il Duce presented the bride with a rich jewel case; Conductor "Tito" Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera, gave her 150 pieces of Venetian glass...
...ascend? In other words, shall. I at 11 o'clock go to Sever 35 to hear Dr. Maynadier in English 29 speak on George Meredith; shall I turn my steps to the Fogg Museum to listen to Mr. Leonard Opdyche in Fine Arts 1d on Correggio and the early Venetian school, which of all schools of Italian painting I am most partial to, or shall I hear Professor Haskins in History 8 speak at Harvard 3 of St. Louis the heroic crusading ruler of mediaeval France...
...poet, hotly amorous of all words, ideas and images that appeal to the senses with clarity and elegance. He writes a rich historical tale in prose of the same genre as that which his austere sister-in-law, Elinor Wylie, put into her finespun web of intellectual silicon, The Venetian Glass Nephew...
...newly organized Vocal Club will sing "Johnny Harvard" and "Schneider's bard", the list of which was written by A. G. Mason '86. The Mandolin Club will play the Venetian Love Song". "Pizzicati", and the "Thousand and One Nights Waltz...