Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate the most entertaining proposal was a resolution by Coleman L. Blease, fire-eater, elected in South Carolina a year ago. His resolution would require the Treasury Department to investigate the use of liquors in foreign embassies and legations; he wants to know whether the Italian Debt Funding Mission had wines and beer, and if so, why no arrests were made. The Senator asseverated...
...Great Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. A repertoire of the standard Russian, French, German and Italian operas; and in addition such modern compositions as The Decembrists by Zolotarev, an opera written with a careful historical basis around the famed "Decembrist Revolt" of 1825, and produced this year for the first time to commemorate its 100th anniversary. Likewise, under the direction of M. Goleizovsky, a series of classic ballets and the "ballet satires," Lalo and Don Quixote...
...length a timid Communist piped: "I think this measure would be justified only if Italy were at war." From the tribune Il Benito looked down, far down: "I consider the Italian nation in a permanent state of war! ... I consider the next five or ten years decisive for the future of our nation, because international competition is growing ever keener. . . . Even as controversies are not permitted at the front in wartime, so now we must realize the maximum national efficiency...
Tucked away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...simple! To honor Signor d'Annunzio and to commemorate his heroism at Fiume, the Italian Government has presented him with the battleship Puglia. High and dry upon his lawn, it is ever ready to fire a broadside in honor of Signor d'Annunzio's distinguished guests...