Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister...
...Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer so that he might defend the slayers of Matteotti (TIME, March 22). The rude mechanic from Abruzzi secured the virtual whitewashing of his clients from an Abruzzi Fascist jury (TIME, April...
...against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...
...Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, was greeted by a band and the wildest enthusiasm when he arrived at Chieti to take charge of the defense. Robed in a handsome gown stitched together by patriotic female admirers, he received homage on all sides for daring to defend the alleged perpetrators of a crime so malodorous. Anti-Fascist lawyers had refused to undertake the defense, professing horror. Fascist lawyers had refused, lest Fascismo be tarred with additional infamy. Above such Roberto Farinacci soared...
...comparative history of commercial aviation in the U. S.? (See AERONAUTICS.) 4) What makes cows give more milk? What (same thing) makes hens lay more eggs? (See Music.) 5) Whose 83-year-old sister heard tributes by radio in her Brooklyn home? (See POLITICAL NOTES.) 6) Who dared to defend the five Fascists accused of the murder of Socialist Matteotti? (See ITALY.) 7) In what act of Ibsen's Ghosts does Libertine Alving appear? (See THE THEATRE.) 8) What two great cities were last week connected by commercial telephone for the first time? (See COMMONWEALTH.) 9) Was Molly Pitcher...