Word: cavour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historians noted that, during the 74 years of Queen Margherita's life, the Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen...
Part of maneuvers was the review of the entire fleet of 300 war vessels by the King from the bridge of the Savoia. They steamed past headed by the dreadnaughts Conte di Cavour, Dante Alighieri, Andrea Doria, Giulio Cesare. Afterward the King reviewed the air force...
...that tremendous faculty for prolonged concentrated effort that is found only in the great Edison, Roosevelt, Bismarck, and Cavour. While at the Yale Divinity School he prepared a thesis of 75,000 words to obtain his Ph.D. His professor, Dr. George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, then teaching at Yale, remarked that he didn't see how any man could have completed such a task...
...Thayer, who held many degrees from colleges throughout the country, was a nationally-known biographer. His "Life and Times of Cavour", "Life and Letters of John Hay", and "Theodore Roosevelt--an Intimate Biography", secured for him such recognition in biographical work that the National Institution of Arts and Letters awarded him a gold medal for biography...
...love of liberty and freedom, his sense of justice, his strong intelligence, his studious habits and scholarly methods, all made it natural that he should exploit history and ponder the results until he had produced such work as his Cavour, his John Hay, his George Washington, his Theodore Roosevelt...