Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
...Pius XI's physical state. Vatican workers hung 50-ft. velvet curtains about the high altar of St. Peter's, erected wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when the Holy Fatrrer was borne in on his portable throne, walked a few steps to the altar throne. .During Mass, celebrated by Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, the Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host. To the faithful who had not seen...
...page typescript of his speech a nutter of applause stirred in the general gallery. For Italian journalists in the press gallery this was the last straw. Jangle-nerved after months of watching Italy badgered with Sanctions at Geneva, they jumped up, bellowed jeers and curses at the Emperor, screamed "Viva Il Duce...
...Viva il Re!" screamed the crowd...
...explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores of Lake Tana. In Rome the Rearing Horse was tractable enough to fill the Fas cist Press with soothing statements that Italy had had every intention of maintaining Britain...