Word: capri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, made known that he would sail for Italy next week to buy a castle on the Isle of Capri...
Through the double glass doors of the White House, past the expressionless Negro footmen, into the ultimate social sanctum of the land, there passed one afternoon last week a slender, middle-aged invited guest wearing an afternoon dress of capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small grey hat, moonlight grey hose, snakeskin slippers. She was well pleased to be there; to be greeted by the First Lady; to see Mrs. Good, the Secretary of War's wife, pouring the tea, and Mrs. Attorney-General Mitchell conversing politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon...
HERE are myths and legends of Capri made while you wait, and then unmade again with such rapidity that a slight but very pleasing sensation of madness overtakes you. You sigh with pleasure something goes lightly to your head, then: "Ah," you knowingly remark, "it is that Capri...
...mystery surrounding the name of Cerio too, but that is quickly dispelled by Francis Brett Young in his foreword. Mr. Young makes it quite evident that no one but Edwin Cerio could have written this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four men who feel that Capri...
...Vatican function. The menu at what pious Italians have come to call Peter's Table, was, while not frugal, surprisingly simple-consommé, filet of sole, roast guinea fowl, asparagus hollandaise, assorted ices, sweets, cheese, fruit. The envoys quenched their diplomatic thirsts with glasses of white Capri, red Barolos, tawny Marsala and Gringo-lino, and Italy's champagne, Asti spumante, from Peter's Cellar...