Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Royal Danieli, Mayor Walker attended a formal luncheon given in his honor by Count Orsi, Podesta of Venice. Having finished what he termed "the best luncheon I have ever drunk," the Mayor spoke to the guests. He reminded them that in New York there are Italian, Chinese, Jewish quarters where no English is understood. Even his interpreter smiled when he remarked: "That is why I've been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking...
...lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins...
Pomposity. With the pomposity of an early Roman Emperor, Premier Benito Mussolini last week published the full draft of proposed new Italian criminal laws, designed to give him jurisdiction the world over, empowering him to prosecute and punish Italians and foreigners alike...
Provisions. In general the proposed laws provide penalties for foreigners (Italians naturalized in other lands are considered as for- eigners) and Italians who violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried...
Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari made by an Italian woman of the 17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered that the Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari was a preparation of arsenic sold to impatient wives by the Tiffana. She was executed...