Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin is the three times nine of the majority of the modern languages. More than 65 per cent of the words we use trace back to the Latin root. A knowledge of Latin greatly increases the understanding of the full meaning of words used in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and practically all other languages used in commerees and increasingly, a thorough knowledge of the meaning of words and ability to speak and to understand languages are becoming necessary to success in business...
Last week at Perugia the inference to be drawn from this ancient History was stark and plain. What was a Roman lake may become an Italian mill pond. While II Duce spoke, many a Perugian tingled with imperial dreams, forgot that the immediate occasion for ecstasy was the dedication by Premier Mussolini of a new college intended for foreign students at the ancient University of Perugia...
...have a duty to accomplish. I have orders to respect. I have taken upon myself an engagement to give material and moral grandeur to the Italian people. That order, that supreme duty was not given to me by petty lawmaking-assemblies or by political circles, more or less clandestine. It was conferred upon me-and the heritage is sacred by reason of all the Fascists fallen in battle-by all, or almost all, the Italian people...
...Schumann Hemk had answered. Should she go back to Europe, to Gratz where she had given her first formal concert at the age of fifteen? Should she go back to the little Austrian town where she grew up, the homely, hard-working child of a Bohemian soldier and an Italian mother? To be sure she had earned her first money there playing dance tunes on a tinkly piano in an old restaurant where the peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents, she had made in just one evening. That, and the seven and a half cents she earned giving...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...