Word: carbonari
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...everyone agreed. As Ricard buttered his toast, the markets battered his firm for paying $8.34 billion for Absolut's parent company, Vin & Sprit--which was almost 21 times the Swedish firm's gross operating profit last year. As if to suggest that Pernod Ricard had overreached, Bruce Carbonari, CEO of Fortune Brands (which was trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod...
...Italians, with deathless heroism and the blessings of English liberals, were conspiring to upset the rudiments of order which Austria had almost succeeded in imposing on parts of the Peninsula. Teresa Guiccioli's father and brother, the Gambas, were patriots and revolutionists. Encouraged by them, Byron joined the Carbonari...
...time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...Metternich of Austria became an almost legendary figure as the great defender of absolute monarchy, the subtle, far-reaching, implacable enemy of revolutions wherever they appeared in Europe. Traveling about the continent, he advised the dissolution of athletic societies in Germany as potential revolutionary groups, the suppression of the Carbonari in Italy for the same reason, while his counsel was sought when students rioted, soldiers mutinied, princes conspired. To conservative historians he has been known as the most accomplished defender of the principle of divine right; to liberals he appeared the archenemy of progress, democracy and the rights...
...biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice." Of all its episodes, the one involving Jane Clairmont and Byron, with the Countess Guiceioli bobbing up and down and Allegra abandoned to the Carbonari and the managerie and the Hoppners and the Capuchin Convent in Bagnacavallo is the least edifying...