Word: mazzini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis Hall entered into the enviable role of Captain, forgetful, superhuman, old gargoyle of a man, with extraordinary understanding and carried the play on his shoulders in many places. The second character part of note, that of Mazzini Dunn, an elusive, kindly, never-get-rich old fellow who had the honor to be Ellie's father, was admirably filled by Horace Pollock. And Ralph Roberts stole a large slice of the second act from under the noses of the rest of the cast with his Cockney dialect and the little playlet all his own, a gift from Shaw...
Historians noted that, during the 74 years of Queen Margherita's life, the Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen...
...Mazzini, the greatest of Italian democrats, has given the world the best definition when he defined democracy as "The progress of all under the leadership of the wisest and the best"; and it is as true today as it was when he pronounced those immortal words and it is a safe rule by which to judge our own legislators in our National Congress. That body consists of 531 of the leaders of 48 states and 435 Congressional districts. They are the chosen men of the hundred and thirteen millions of our people. Their conscience is as good as that...
...that long word "normalization," whose consistent ambiguity I have already clearly denounced. According to the Opposition we should become good Liberals and continue the traditions of the risorgimento for which the Liberals alone claim credit, while as a matter of fact some of its chief figures were Republicans, like Mazzini and Garibaldi, or Federalists, like Cattaneo, or even Socialists, like Pisacane...
...another infant has arisen. Pietro Mazzini, son of an Italian publicist and of the singer, Carla Benassi, is a pianist. The other day he played a program. "Nothing short of marvelous," said a French critic. This lad is only five...