Word: garibaldian
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...island domain of Caprera, between Corsica and Sardinia (much of it paid for by English friends), Garibaldi dreamed of a Shelleyan end-to be burned, like the poet, on the beach. When he died in 1882, he was instead given the usual Christian burial on Caprera. Nature supplied the Garibaldian touch. A melodramatic storm came up, and the vast granite block that now covers his body cracked and broke...
...small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
Verdi wrote it for an international shindig in London in 1862, when part of Italy was still under the Austrian heel, and he always considered it a musical indiscretion. But Toscanini, who has scrupulously avoided any truck with Fascism, found Verdi's Garibaldian sentiments too appropriate to neglect...
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...
...would be a likely successor to Dr. Buehler. Howe's method is one of personal comradeship with the boys. In this he follows his chief-Horace D. Taft (brother of "Bill" and "Charlie"). Headmaster Taft is, after the Hotchkiss manner, called the King, but his authority rests on a Garibaldian affection rather than on a Cavourian dominance. The head of Groton is Dr. Peabody. "The Rector," the "Grotties" call him. He has instituted the "prefect" system in assiduous loyalty to the English manner. The Hill School was for many years the intimate home of the boys of the late John...