Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale filled with blood and tears, with Reds and bigwigs, with bombs and laws. . . . April 15, 1920. A paymaster and a guard were shot to death on the streets of South Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South Braintree-Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler-were arrested as suspicious characters. The U. S. was then on a rabid radical hunt. Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were on the Red lists. July 14, 1921. A jury found Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti...
...misfortune creature of the earth-I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. . . .I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed, I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian . . . but I am so convinced to be right that you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other time, I would live again to do what I have done already. I have finished ; thank you." Forthwith, amid interruptions, Judge Thayer...
Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
...Grandgent '83, Professor of Romance Languages, has traced the development of classical Latin into modern Italian in "From Latin to Italian...
...time in the world's history has the art of painting risen to greater heights than in the period known as the Italian Renaissance; in no place was it more assiduously practiced than in Florence. Here lived and worked such men as Fra Angellco, Castagno, Venocchio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. Andrea del Sarto names that are above all others in the art of painting. At 11 o'clock this morning, in the New Fogg Museum, Professor Edgell will discuss the lives and works of the earlier members of the Florentine School...