Word: garibaldis
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...startling clothes; all her life she looked like the prizewinner at a masquerade. By the time she was in her middle 205 she was the good friend of Humboldt and Schopenhauer. By the time she was in her middle 305 she had modeled these two, as well as Garibaldi, George V of Hanover, Victoria of England, Ludwig II of Bavaria and platoons of chemists and literary men. At the crest of her fame and beauty, she left Europe, spent the rest of her long life in Texas. There she was, if anything, more fantastic...
...died on another trip to the Riviera, at the Hotel Idéal Séjour, Cap Martin, Jan. 28, 1939. There were many drowned sailors buried near his grave, and an obscure follower of Garibaldi beside it. To Dublin, soon, came bishoplike T. S. Eliot "to speak on one whom he called 'the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in his language, and so far as I can judge, in any language...
...feverishly, prodded by German threats, complaints and taunts that France had not earned "the right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages in the factory courtyard. Then they went...
Poet Carl Sandburg, authority on Lincoln, authoritatively scotched a Rome radio tale that Italian Patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi had been asked to lead Union troops in the Civil War. The poet labeled it "just one more of those goofy affairs that come out of Italy...
...from a deal made by Napoleon III and King Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia in 1859, when Napoleon promised to help liberate northern Italy from Austria in return for Nice and Savoy. The war aroused such enthusiasm throughout Italy that Napoleon ducked out of it, taking his prize, while Garibaldi and his Red Shirts conquered Sicily and Naples for Vittorio Emanuele...