Word: sardinians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SARDINIAN SIDESHOW-Amelie Posse-Brazdova-Button...
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...
...Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome and besieged the authorities in behalf of her harmless husband (a painter). Sitting in anterooms, waiting for audiences, she read...
...eyed Negro in blue stood on a velvet-draped stage of the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries in New York last week with his arms full of Sardinian snaphaunces. The auctioneer droned along in his pulpit: "Five, do I hear seven-fifty? Five, do I hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days...
Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...