Word: benedetto
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Premier Mussolini has allowed the aristocratic Senate to continue its obedient, decorative existence, even though some of its functions have been assumed by the Council. About 95% of the Senators are now Fascists. The 5% who are antiFascists (like Benedetto Croce, the philosopher) know enough to stay away...
...former pupils of old Don Benedetto, most had gone with the wind of the times. Only one, Pietro Spina, refused to conform. When, weary of exile, he came back to Italy to see how the land lay. he found his former comrades scattered, missing or "reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against...
...held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
...Baby Benedetto grew older it became obvious that he had very little coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely...
...time, because the Academicians at Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased at the final selection...