Word: sardinia
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...Sardinia...
...Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...announcement last week of the final pacification of Libya was a matter of great concern to France. Stirred were old Franco-Italian rivalries focusing on the north coast of Africa. France's rich fertile Tunis is only 90 miles from the tip of Italy's island, Sardinia. There are more Italians living in French Tunis than in Italian Libya which is, for the most part, a barren useless land. The southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already...
...horned, red-brown mountain sheep indigenous to Corsica and Sardinia...
Once more Pope Pius XI's loyal Count Dalla Torre, editor of Osservatore Romano rushed into the breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most...