Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the offices of Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper child of Benito Mussolini, the Milanese displayed a long-pent hatred. Within the building an armed band of Fascists held out. Led by Vito Mussolini, a nephew of the ex-Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear...
...Gentle, affable, pink-eyebrowed Oswald Veblen (nephew of the late great economist-sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen) is doing a war job for the Government, having temporarily ceased working on spinors. Asked for a simple, lay definition of spinors, the mathematician shrugged and smiled. He has left behind topology, which he defines simply as "the theory of the properties of a body which are unchanged when you make any continuous deformation...
...Razaf's real name: Andrea Razafinkeriefo. He is the nephew of Ranavalona III, last Queen of Madagascar...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
...Rumanians are also worried by their neighbors and territorial rivals, Hungary and Bulgaria. According to one report, Dictator Antonescu's nephew, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu, recently threatened to resign with the entire Cabinet unless enough Rumanian troops were withdrawn from Russia to defend the Bulgarian frontier. Rumania has already lost part of Transylvania to Hungary...