Word: vesuvian
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...Effusive, Not Explosive." One man did not leave the tortured slope. Lively, pint-sized Professor Giuseppe Imbo, director of the Vesuvian Royal Observatory and foremost authority on the volcano, clung to his tiny workshop halfway up the mountain. Through four days & nights he scarcely ate, barely slept or washed. Alone he crept to the boiling crater's edge, closely charted the lava flow, checked his seismograph by kerosene lamp...
...drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who calls Attilio "Uncle Peach" and John D. Rockefeller Jr. whom "Uncle...
June Kisses (Victor). Henry Thies & Orchestra tunefully arguing for early summer bussing. Under Vesuvian Skies on the back...
Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, will lecture at the Harvard Union tomorrow high at 7 o'clock on the topic "From Alpine Snows to Vesuvian Lava." The address, which will tell in part of the Geology Summer School's trip in 1928, will be open to Union members only. L. T. Grimm '29, vice-president of the Union, will introduce Professor Mather...
...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...