Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondents eagerly drank in the General's somewhat premature but colorful remarks: [ bring to the world the truth about Fascismo! I was one of those accused of complicity in the Matteotti murder. I was later shamefully prevented from proving my innocence before the courts by being released through a general amnesty. I still declare that Premier Mussolini was responsible for what happened to Matteotti!" (TIME, June...
...vagaries of varied mood mottled memoirs of the arts, poetry, after all, is poetry. And Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
Signora Matteotti, widow of the reputedly Fascist-murdered millionaire Socialist Deputy (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.), commented bitterly upon an announcement made last week that the five men now charged with the "unpremeditated murder" of Matteotti are to be tried at Chieti next month. Said she: "I am withdrawing my lawyers. I shall ignore the trial. Through the machinations of the Fascist government those actually to blame will not be tried. It would be repugnant to me to participate in such a comedy...
...time of the murder even Premier Mussolini himself was suspected of instigating the assassins, and his party's supremacy was momentarily threatened by the scandal. During the ensuing dilatory proceedings, the Fascist prosecutor has whitewashed all Fascists of any importance...
...opportunity was Mary's again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...