Word: garibaldi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy put him into power, but it now threatens to destroy him because he cannot control it. Beginning last July with the assassination of Matteoti, the Socialist deputy, there has been a sucqession of disturbances which culminated in the Italian Armistice Day riot. The grandson of the great Garibaldi has even challenged Mussolini to a duel but has not been answered...
...word "normalization," whose consistent ambiguity I have already clearly denounced. According to the Opposition we should become good Liberals and continue the traditions of the risorgimento for which the Liberals alone claim credit, while as a matter of fact some of its chief figures were Republicans, like Mazzini and Garibaldi, or Federalists, like Cattaneo, or even Socialists, like Pisacane...
...precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs...
Died. Captain Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson of the hero; in Rome. After a period of coma, he opened his eyes, kissed his wife, embraced his daughters, to his son whispered: "Peppino, I am going; you continue the Garibaldian tradition," then died. Premier Mussolini ordered a funeral at the expense of the State, but it was refused...
...itself, that part of the universe which is vulgarly imagined to move the slowest, has its own producing companies of Chinese. Mr. Van Dycke has instituted a reform of far more universal significance; if he is successful, his name will go ringing down the centuries coupled with those of Garibaldi and Bolivar. His memory will, be a sacred thing, and multitudes will call him blessed. Briefly, Mr. Van Dycke has eliminated tipping...