Word: girgenti
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...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...
...policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down the seemingly concerted series of anti-Fascist riots which have been occurring recently in Palermo, Caltanisetta and Girgenti. Universal Silence. All Fascists were "commanded" by a manifesto to "keep silent about any local strife* within the party which nearly always arises from the stupidest motives." Anti-"Vacationist." To prevent the flight of the Italian lira abroad in the pockets of vacationing Italians, all passport offices were instructed...
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