Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture will deal with a 13,000 mile cruise from New London to Corsica and back by way of the West Indies. The "Wanderbird" is the largest yacht in the world to have only sail-power. It is 54 years...
Rise of Hitler. Recalling that Napoleon was born in Corsica, loyal Hitlerites boast: "Our Leader is more German than Napoleon was French...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter...
...Carmen had the best headlinemaker. Mary Garden, returning from retirement in Corsica, pranced and wiggled gaily, took her bows with seasoned enthusiasm. Though the amplifiers helped the small Garden voice, critics found her inclined to "yodel." Said she afterwards: "You know that role is a little low for me, but always they have had me as Carmen. Always they have pressed it upon me. I don't know why, but they...