Word: gondolas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standing with one foot on the quai and one in a gondola haggling with the gondolier over prices when the gondolier gave a quick twist with his car . . . One of the oddest hazards of the summer was the admonishment in a cata-comb in Rome, "Persons tampering with the relics will be excommunicated...
Students got about in Europe by every conceivable means, from gondola to airliner. Bicycle is the fashion abroad: on maps, roads are even marked with little pointed things to show where the hills are and which way they go. Jeeps are cheap and rugged. A few stalwarts went about on motorcycles, which are fine except on cobblestones, where they shake you to jelly...
Before the war she frequently took groups of musicians to Europe with her. She has, in fact, presented concerts in practically every large city. She declines to verify a story about a visit to Venice. Riding down the Grand Canal in a gondola one day, it is said, her craft was suddenly surrounded by a host of others, full of Venetians shouting thanks to the great American who had helped their Malipiero. She tosses it off as legend and indeed she is bound to be legendary. As well as being the most generous music patron in America...
...East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her father picked it up in Venice in 1890 for $2,000), it had rested for a couple of decades under some tarpaper on the Moran lawn. The library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair...
...gondola's literary value was largely catalytic: the poem In A Gondola deals with thoughts of love...