Word: viva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered Austria where the Cabinet of doughty Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg was almost frantic at the outside chance...
...presented the controversy to the meeting as a personal matter, told his listeners that Baritone Bonelli had lately said: "No one who doesn't make $10,000 a year has a right to call himself a grand opera artist." To cries of ''Bravo!'' and "Viva Salmaggi!" the Hippodrome boss cried: "Tibbett can't sing! He's just lucky. And that goes for Bonelli too. Why, neither of them could sing in my theatre for more than $15 a night." Other G.O.A.A.A. speakers charged that the Guild was a "company union" of the Metropolitan...
...much unwanted publicity. The Italian hospital ship Helouan caught fire, burned to the water's edge in Naples harbor as tens of thousands lined the quays and wharves to watch the spectacular blaze. Fortnight ago, the Helouan had dumped 650 moppets from Rightist Spain at Genoa, where, cheering "Viva Il Duce -Arriba Espana," they were rushed away to refugee camps. Only a skeleton crew remained aboard the hospital ship tied up in Naples. Hundreds of tourists, including Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returning from a Papal audience, were prevented from boarding the U. S.-bound Conte di Savoia until...
...stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their feet to roar Viva l'amore Viva l'amore! (Long live love!). At the end of the play Romeo bowed to the couple, threw up his hand in a Fascist salute. The crowd went wild with excitement. It was a typical demonstration of the popularity that greeted the Duke & Duchess wherever they went...
...Viva il Presidente! Viva il Presidente! rang the streets of Castel Gandolfo, the Papal summer residence, as excited Italian villagers last week cheered the arrival of a man they thought was president...