Word: saverio
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...lose his post because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion for intrigue, and Saverio, a bumbling idealist who dreams of Utopia and imagines Perro to be an agent of a secret revolutionary committee...
...sequence that recalls one of Shakespeare's low-comedy passages, Perro and Saverio hire out as servants for the party. There follows a lively mixup-servant shenanigans, romantic horseplay, boudoir burlesque-dampened only by a final scene which ends in tragedy...
...they also got signatures of many an eminent man who should have known better. Italy's Elder Statesman Vittorio Emanuele Orlando signed; so did ex-Premier Saverio Nitti. In Canada, Clergyman Alexander James Wilson signed because "I would do anything under heaven to ensure peace." In the days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal...
...When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession of a pistol...
...ancient formula: "In the most holy name of the Trinity ... for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion. . . ." Then, with the solemn notes of the Te Deum, and the pomp of a papal High Mass, and the clamor of Roman church bells, Francesca Saverio Cabrini became the first U.S. saint...