Word: signoralli
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...beginning of the debate was enlivened by the re-entry into the Chamber of the Communists, who decided to abandon their boycott in order to be able to heckle the Government. Their spokesman, Signor Grieco, was not long in starting his attack. In a bitter speech, full of the usual Communist phrases, he attacked Fascism mercilessly for its policies, its achievements, its existence...
...Premier Giolitti spoke, but had little to add to Signor Orlando's arguments. His reception from the Fascisti was more violent than that accorded to his colleague, for it was remembered by everybody that Signor Giolitti is a past master in the gentle art of "cooking" elections...
...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
...genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...
...else is prose. Ruskin thought he had stripped his definition of non-essentials when he wrote that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." Later he discovered he had left out rhythm, and he amended his definition to include it. But Signor Croce stands upon his knife-edge distinction, and is not at all daunted by the necessity of calling de Maupassant a poet. The practical value of his theory is very doubtful. If one could overlook all but the simplest facts, as Signor Croce has done, that would certainly make matters much...