Word: matteo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly a decade Italian Socialists have been living with the bitter aftermath of the day in January 1947 when a lean, jut-jawed young intellectual bearing an honored name rose to address a party congress in the Great Hall of Rome University. The speaker was Matteo Matteotti. His father was Socialist Leader Giacomo Matteotti, modern Italy's No. 1 political martyr...
...Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
...years that followed, Nenni and Matteotti brushed past each other in the halls of the Italian Parliament without speaking. Last week, in the same Rome University building in which the 1947 split occurred, wily, aging (65) Pietro Nenni and 35-year-old Matteo Matteotti, now secretary of the Social Democratic Party, were once again in conversation...
...Girl? The plot's pretty problem: Zdenka, younger sister in a penniless noble family, has been raised as a boy for economy's sake (a boy's upbringing is so much cheaper). But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo. Fortunately, Arabella falls for a handsome stranger and Zdenka lures Matteo to her room, leading him to believe he is getting Arabella. Since the handsome stranger overhears (and misunderstands) this plot, things look pretty bad for a while. Zdenka finally clears everything up by appearing as the woman she really...
While the buses were parked outside the station house, waiting for police action, an off-duty patrolman, Anthony Matteo, staggered onto one of the buses and made feeble attempts to interfere with proceedings, making profane references to other policemen, especially Pepe, who took charge of booking. Matteo was later charged with drunkenness and breach of peace...