Word: sardinians
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...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
...great Sardinian minister served in the army in his youth, and imbibed the revolutionary doctrines of the time during his military service. After a career as a man of business and as an editor of II Risorgimento a Liberal journal of great influence, he became a member of the Sardinian Cabinet in 1850 as Minister of Finance and two years later became Premier...
Libretto. Gallurese, a "high-souled outlaw," Maria, a lovely daughter of a poor shepherd, Rivegas, a Spanish renegado, folk dances from the Sardinian, drinking choruses, religious choruses, innocence outraged, bloody murder...
...King Carlo Alberto granted to his Sardinian subjects a Statuto fondamentale del Regno, or Constitution. An expansion of that Constitution has served Italy until the present, but Benito proposed to have it changed...