Word: signoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signora Matteotti, widow of the reputedly Fascist-murdered millionaire Socialist Deputy (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.), commented bitterly upon an announcement made last week that the five men now charged with the "unpremeditated murder" of Matteotti are to be tried at Chieti next month. Said she: "I am withdrawing my lawyers. I shall ignore the trial. Through the machinations of the Fascist government those actually to blame will not be tried. It would be repugnant to me to participate in such a comedy...
Interpretess. Signora Sarfatti, wife of a prominent Italian lawyer and for many years a devoted assistant in his editorship of various newspapers, achieves her most telling passages in her interpretation of Mussolini's well known "about face" from Socialism to Fascism...
...which he had warned the officer was unsafe. The mortar burst. Mussolini sustained 42 serious wounds, nearly died, lived to see Italy, although "victorious," slump into a period of post-War depression, discontent and unrest from which he felt that only the drastic "black shirts" could save her. To Signora Sarfatti, it was the Socialists who "deserted" Mussolini by betraying Italy?not the reverse...
Aside from such occasional, rather "complimentary censure," Signora Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...
...such "old wives' tales" therefore are only enough "to make a good story." Signora Sarfatti's style is often uneven, diffuse, erratic; but much of her material is of the first importance and obtainable in English in no other form...