Word: borgias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family of Florence, became a clerk in its government. For 14 years he sorted ambassadors' reports, paid secret agents, inspected fortresses and accounts. Sometimes the Signory sent Machiavelli on diplomatic missions. At the Vatican he began his firsthand study of power politics under such masters as Pope Alexander Borgia and his alleged son Cesare. Cesare Borgia was Machiavelli's model for the Prince...
...teller promises his wife that someday he will be rich and famous; then his sensational adventure comes about apparently as an accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard him as the epitome of respectability that he has always seemed, or a Borgia in disguise. This uncertainty does not add to the interest. There is an amusing uncertainty springing up in the third act, however, over whether the little man actually made the kill that he is so sure of, or whether his glory is to be snatched away from him by some...
...Great American Rudeness," i.e., the custom that a hostess serves herself first-at which Mrs. Post hurls a five-page jeremiad, denouncing it as a vulgar survival from the poisoning Borgia...
...might have been and Communists in numbers running very high think he ought to have been and should be Dictator of Russia today instead of Stalin. Keynoted Trotsky, who issued a fresh statement every few hours in Mexico on the Moscow trial: "Stalin's crimes put Caesar Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters he was supposed to have written had not yet been produced in Moscow; he once more offered to produce the whole of his voluminous correspondence to prove that he broke with Radek...
...voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut in Italy in 1908. Four years later she was at the Metropolitan singing with Caruso at an opening night...