Word: annunzio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...
...enormous, regal Isotta-Fraschini is the car of two kings of tiny stature, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele and Siam's waif Praja Dhipok. In Manhattan the Isotta is sold by a son of potent Prince-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Sumptuous, fur-carpeted is the new Isotta-Fraschini limousine just presented by Italian admirers to Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius...
Little known is the fact that Poet-Flyer Gabriel d'Annunzio's son, Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, has been in the U. S. for several years representing the Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. Last week Captain d'Annunzio became a director of the American Aeronautical Corp., newly organized to manufacture Italian Savoia seaplanes and flying boats in this country...
...Embraced and chatted confidentially with famed Poet-warrior Gabriele D'Annunzio who has completely recovered from a recent illness...
...Other books should not be extolled. Said the Pontiff: "Favored by marvelous gifts from God for ingenuity and creative fantasy, it is rare that he has not left in his work some traces of impiety and immorality." "He" was, all agreed, famed Italian poet and playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio...