Word: garibaldis
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...like electric cookstoves and concert violinists. They get hot slowly . . . but when they get hot they're volcanic." In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders-all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi. Again he found few authentic Reds, only Latin sound & fury. The central fact about an Italian, says Seabrook, is that he is "a go-getter, interested more in construction, material welfare and money than in anything else." Of German Americans, he estimated, only 1% are obtrusively Nazi. He calls the Germans...
...with Italy might not last much longer." This frivolous view Italians could not take. From the King down they were nervous, anxious and resentful of Britain's jam-packing the Mediterranean with warships neither authorized nor requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline up from 85? per gal. to $1.10 last week, Italy's mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto combined patriotism...
Died. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, 75, retired banker, eldest son of Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
Oreste Baratieri was a Garibaldi Redshirt and an old-school Italian with a family pride sensitive as a rabbit's lip. Three days he brooded over the telegram from Premier Crispi, then assembled the four Generals under his command for a conference. The Ethiopian army was encamped 18 miles away in a brutal country of cliffs, gullies and thorn-covered hills. It outnumbered the Italians six to one and was equipped with artillery. Even so, all five Italian Generals voted to attack at once for the honor of their commander...
...Piccirillis are the Bronx climax of a distinguished family of Tuscans who, originally from Spain, worked in stone for two centuries around Carrara and Massa between the mountains and the sea, fought with Garibaldi and emigrated to Manhattan...