Word: vulcania
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...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
Instead of sailing for New York last week, comfortably full of U. S. tourists, Italy's gaudy, ornate, popular Vulcania cleared from Naples pack-jammed with excited Italian troops. They waved pith helmets, brandished rifles tipped with the Italian tricolor and roared alternately "Live The Duce!" and "Live The King!" In each soldier's breast pocket was a handy picture of Il Duce inspiringly autographed...
...days after the Vulcania embarked, the Biancamano set sail from Sicily, bound for Somaliland, with 100 officers, 2,600 soldiers and quantities of supplies including motor trucks, artillery and motorized artillery...
William Allen White, round, ebullient editor of the Emporia, Kans. Gazette, described a "concert" he had with Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell on the Vulcania returning from Europe: "The Cardinal and I happened to be in the conservatory alone. I was plugging at the piano, and I happened to play the 'Hymn to the Evening Star.' Then the Cardinal played the 'Pilgrims' Chorus' from Tannhäuser. Then it was my turn and I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' The Cardinal popped up and said he wanted to show...
Bishop John Mark Gannon of Erie, Pa. (transferring with 30 other passengers from the Rex to the Vulcania, also of the Italian Lines): "I leave the Rex reluctantly. The only reason for my leaving is that I was unable to see the captain, the purser or any person who could give me reliable information about her departure. I had to have some definite idea of the date I am to arrive home...