Word: teutonico
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...Louvain University's Library in 1940, the second time in two wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...
...favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed the library again...
...Architect Warren did not consider the building complete. He wanted an inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta: Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). On the ground that the inscription was "likely to breed hatred," Architect Warren was overruled...
...completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said...
...University was enjoined to permit Architect Warren to erect his inscriptional balustrade Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta, on the ground that it was part of the original architectural plan approved by University authorities years...