Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered...
Public attention was diverted by the appearance of Boxer Carnera in the ring, his huge Venetian tummy modestly covered by a straining, skintight singlet purchased at a nearby haberdashery...
...little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...Early Venetian Painting". Professor Post, Fogg lecture room...
...business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed yacht Corsair was off on a little cruise in Venetian waters with her owner, Mr. Morgan...