Word: guglielmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...
...night last August a mob of Negro stevedore soldiers at Fort Lawton, Wash., stormed into a barracks occupied by paroled Italian prisoners of war. The Negroes, brooding over special privileges shown the POWs, were armed with "knives, clubs, trench shovels, axes, stones." After MPs had quelled the brawl, Italian Guglielmo Olivotto was found in a gully near by, hanged by the neck and dead...
Died. Dr. Gina Lombroso Ferrero, 73, crusading intellectual, Italy's first woman physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction - the evil of the machine...
...when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That's for me, Guglielmo Rosson...
...Apart from war casualties in 1942, the following went to their deaths: Historian Guglielmo Ferrero; French journalist and political theorist Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales (The Making of Tomorrow); Poet William Alexander Percy, whose prose work Lanterns on the Levee was one of 1941's most substantial contributions to American letters; Poet Alan Porter; dog-lover Albert Payson Terhune; popular Novelists Rachel Field, Alice Hegan Rice, Alice Duer Miller (The White Cliffs...