Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, having roamed over Europe trying to find partners for a colony-grabbing expedition, was said to have failed lamentably. As for France, she had recovered not only her financial stability but her political unity...
...lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime I, "pride of the fleet...
...tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...
...long, episodic music drama's nine scenes,* must work hard to dominate its diffuse action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside from the fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come to fruit in Russia until 1917. This scene, which ends...