Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Sanselli, national director of the Italian Veterans' Association, spoke in kind, but did not go so far back in history as to recall the original Legionaries from Rome, who used to march through what is now Genoa on their way to subdue the barbaric Gauls, Angles, Saxons, Celts and Teutons from whom U. S. Legionaries are largely descended...
Commander Savage made a speech: "We are very happy to be here. We bring the salutations of the American Legion to the Italian Army and nation, past and present. We are greatly pleased with our reception, but not surprised, since we are in the native country of the man who discovered America...
...Italian woman returned last week to Italy with two sorry souvenirs after a six-week visit to the U. S. She was Miss Luigia Vanzetti, aboard the S. S. Mauretania, with two urns. In one urn were half the ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, her electrocuted, anarchist brother; in the other, half the ashes of Nicola Sacco, her brother's electrocuted, anarchist friend-murderers both, in the eyes of Massachusetts...
Miss Vanzetti said she would inter the ashes in Italian soil...
Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 of the University has written "From Latin to Italian," styled a guide book for students of Romance philology. "Tottel's Miscellany" is the title of a book written by Professor H. E. Rollins of the Department of English. This is a reprint of a prominent Elizabethan anthology, and will be followed later by a volume of critical notes. A collection of typical Puritan verse entitled "Handkerchiefs from Paul," by Assistant Professor K. B. Murdock '16 will be published in November...