Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teeth Takers. Thieves and murderers seized, in Odessa last week, the 75-year-old Italian Vice-Consul Signor Kozzio. Having beaten him to death, they extracted and escaped with his several gold teeth. Observers wondered whether Il Duce, justly wroth, would exact "a tooth for a tooth...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Died. Count Teofilo Rossi Di Montelera, 67, onetime Italian Minister of State, head of famed firm of Martini & Rossi, vermouth manufacturers ; at Turin...
...incident might have been confined to a few babbling Italian quarters, but for the alertness of liberty-loving Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays and other advocates of the Sacco-Vanzetti brief in Massachusetts' recent spectacle...
...tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers, the identifier being a Fascist organizer who hated the very benches the defendants sat on. The jurors acquitted the Messrs. Greco...