Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon 20 men looking extraordinarily fat and bloated met at a Stadium Street restaurant in Athens for lunch. They had secret instructions from the island of Crete where M. Venizelos has been hiding to avoid assassination, his villa guarded night & day by Republican youths with machine guns. Immediately after lunch the 20 bloated men in Athens stripped off their baggy civilian clothes, revealed themselves completely dressed in naval uniform. Tearing through the streets in motor cars, they rushed to the Salamis naval arsenal. A high ranking officer shot the sentry dead. Five warships including the two finest in the Greek...
...data on that high bourgeois royalty, Edward of Wales might better have walked through Schönbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend...
Victorious finally in the warfare, Paraguay feels apparently that nothing is to be gained by arbitration. Her army at Villa Montes holds a strategic position relative to Bolivia's oil fields Even though she has broken the League covenant thus theoretically exposing herself to international coercion, Paraguay, it would seem, prefers the bird in hand to the possible outcome of the League's peaceful settlement...
...typhus accompanied the sack of Rome by Charles V's troops. Wrote Villa, an invading Spaniard: "In Rome no Dells sound; no church is open; no mass is read. There are no Sundays and no holidays. The rich shops of the merchants are used as stables; the most beautiful palaces are devastated. Houses burn and the streets are heaps of manure. The stench of the corpses is dreadful, and in the churches I have seen dead bodies gnawed by dogs. Mercenaries are dicing for heaps of ducats in the streets. I can compare it to nothing that I know...
...Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa on Lake Geneva but he hints at a U. S. tour for next year...