Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascism, Italian phenomenon, was denounced, deplored...
...exceedingly competent "Old Village, Menton" and John Carroll's pretty illustration "Man With Guitar." (Would it, one critic demanded, have been too laborious to call this picture "A Man With a Guitar"?) Only a jury of painters would have discerned the subtlety of Ferrazzi's tall Italian woman, by far the best picture in the exhibition, which by an odd chance received first prize. From what tall church window did she steal the gown she wore the morning Ferrazzi thought of her, standing beside an open door? The woman, leading a baby girl, is about to go from...
Last week in Manhattan, newspapers, billboards flaunted an advertisement: The World's Greatest Tenor would give a concert. The billboards carried pictures of a round-faced Italian with small, black eyes like pants buttons-a picture of Beniamino Gigli. He would sing, so he announced, favorite arias and "there is no tenor living who sings these melodious arias like Gigli. To hear any one of them is worth the price of your ticket...
Many flocked to hear him, saw a stuffy little man, like a bantam rooster, come on the stage, saw him swell out his bosom, and open his mouth. They shut their eyes then, listened to melting outbursts rich in melody, sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many...
...high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon, Java, the islands of the South Seas, does not attempt to force the natives to learn his own languages; he learns theirs and gets the business...