Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking something like the late President Harding, was presented to President Coolidge last week. He is George Gretziano, newly appointed Rumanian Minister to the U. S. He speaks French, Italian and Spanish, and understands English, but does not speak it. He hopes to learn it. Said the President in welcoming him: "The presence in this country of Her Majesty, the Queen of Rumania, is indeed a happy expression of that friendship and mutual consideration Existing between Rumania and the United States." ¶ An oil painting of the U. S. fleet entering Sydney harbor in 1925 was the gift brought...
...snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
...story last week a 16-line "message to America" signed by Mussolini. The "message" was inconsequential, but the paper on which it was written was significant. At the top is printed the bold letterhead: IL CAPO DEL GOVERNO (Head of the Government). Along the left margin is printed: "CARTA ITALIAN A DI PASTA E CELLULOSA DI PAGLIA PRODOTTA ESCLUS-IVAMENTE CON MATERIE PRIME NAZIONALI." ("Italian paper of paste and cellulose of straw, produced exclusively with national raw materials...
...Crete about the year 1547, he went to Italy to study; and there his work was influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. It is said that he lived in a little room in the palace of the Cardinal Farnese. He went to Spain when the Duke of Toledo asked Italian painters to work on his cathedral, and in Toledo, stony and enchanted on its hill above a desert where goats wandered with magicians, he painted until the end of his life...
Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...