Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, continued his pleasure cruise on the yacht Venezia. At Venice, Count Giuseppe Volpi, Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
Then came Herr Reinhardt's annual surprise, incorporated in a good old reliable Shakesperean comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Accustomed theatregoers must have gasped when they saw the stage. He had audaciously scrapped the usual Greek setting. Costumed in rococo gowns of an early Italian period, the actors scampered over a circular, sloping stage, before a seemingly infinite column of stairs. Draperies hung in a background clustered with stars were melted by green and orange lights into an elfin heaven. Puck, anointing the wrong lovers with his impish love-dew, flew on and off from so many different levels...
...list is obviously too long to tabulate. Let the poor student who dreams of Dr. Freud's courses in Vienna, of the Italian music masters, of the Sorbonne in Paris, communicate with the Institute of International Education, No. 2 West 45th Street, Manhattan. The Institute publishes a pamphlet for students listing all scholarships...
Everyone knows that Ahmed Fuad I is a British puppet and unpopular in Egypt, but honor done to him is still honor done to the Egyptian masses who must in the end attain their destiny and choose what nations to call "friend." While King Fuad was in residence with Italian royalty, he and his entire suite were required to enact a quaint mummery so that he might call at the Vatican. Etiquette forbids that any person shall pass directly between a residence of the King of Italy and the residence of the Pope. Therefore King Fuad was obliged to "reside...
...Sempack is the Wellsian spokesman, an angular, hairy length of finely developed humanity who shambles about among the guests of a pretty Mrs. Cynthia Rylands on the Italian Riviera, talking calmly, kindly, but grimly and incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including...