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...Manhattan arrived Rev. Lorenzo M. Spirale, treasurer of the Catholic Augustinian Order, sent by Benito Mussolini to preach good citizenship to young U. S.-Italians...
...speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola had more spiritual fish to fry. He began to cast in the troubled waters of politics. When the French invasion came and the Medici were ousted from Florence, Savonarola practically bossed the town. But when he ran afoul of the Pope...
...cloistered Yard, but Harvard shall have its democracy again. An awesome member of the Faculty, who should have known better, was heard to rejoice at the ending of "tyranny, damned tyranny," with the coming of the Conant regime. Were only all dictators as benevolent and enlightened as Adolf Lorenzo Lowell...
...husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting as model for her third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society, she has always had the money, friends and inclination to shift her sphere of influence where she would. As readers of her first book, Lorenzo in Taos, may remember, her influence has not always been appreciated; but that time, Authoress Luhan implies, Greek (D. H. Lawrence) met Greek (herself). Long at work on her Intimate Memories, she has now published the first volume, which tells all about her first 18 years...
From some references to her Memories in Lorenzo in Taos, readers might have supposed that Authoress Luhan's autobiographical purpose was to rip off the veils and drawers of Victorian hypocrisy. But very little is removed in this first...