Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloodstained motor car was trundled last week into the courtyard of the tiny Court of Assizes at Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. In that car had been murdered Giacomo Matteotti, millionaire, Socialist, Deputy, a man marked by all Fascists as the foe of Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself...
Dumini. Whereas Signor Matteotti is alleged to have been kidnaped in a motor car and stabbed to death?his body having been recovered in such a state of decomposition as to make the cause of death uncertain?the testimony . of Amerigo Dumini, chief prisoner, in his own behalf, was thus...
...Then one day I was standing with some friends near Matteotti's house, in Rome. Suddenly he himself stepped out of his house. Visions of poor Bonservizi lying murdered swam before my eyes. Signaling my companions to help me, I sprang upon Matteotti, pushed him into the motor car and then myself took the wheel and drove rapidly away. I intended to take him to some quiet spot and question him concerning his share in the murder of Bonservizi...
...testimony last week tended to show that the murderers buried Matteotti, using as digging tools a file and the crank handle of their motor. The corpse was eventually discovered...
...seeking a new conception of Don Juan. Most readers will conclude that the poet's death (1915) occurred with the search still unfinished. But we have glimpses of the Flecker we know best?gorgeous lines. The Don Juan of the play loves a gypsy, deserts her in a motor, is betrothed to a Prime Minister's daughter, murders him to prevent a war, kills his prospective sister-in-law, whom he has unconvincingly kissed a few pages earlier, and finally shoots his fiancee. The late Prime Minister's statue then beckons the hero to his fate. "Many Casualties" would have...