Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the closing of the American Flying Club, many ex-War pilots and a few pre-War fliers had no place to gather. A former editor of Aviation Magazine, Baron Ladislas d'Orcy (now deceased) . . . suggested that several of the fliers could meet once a week in an Italian restaurant called Marta's at No. 75 Washington Place...
Almost forgotten in the ballyhoo about home-yearning German minorities in Eastern Europe is the fact that Allies Italy and Germany also have between them a little minority problem of their own. Living just south of the Brenner Pass, in what Austrians call the South Tyrol and the Italians insist upon referring to as the Upper Adige, are some 200,000 German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
Favorite programs of Latin-Americans, it appeared, were news broadcasts, but they were also eager to hear such entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
Unfortunately for the Italians, their best-known World War novel is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. These studiously underwritten reminiscences of an Italian ex-army officer (now in exile) show that not every Italian campaign had its Caporetto. Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related...