Word: tommaso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bald Millionaire Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, irascible Father of Futurism ("Fascism is 100% Futuristic"), has left Italy for the eastern front as a major of Blackshirts...
...Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal...
...country where the proper salute is an upraised hand word passed quietly that hat-tipping was an expression of the yearn ing for peace. Many hats were tipped on the streets. Humor of another kind was furnished to a fashionable audience largely of women in Rome by Major Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation for the exportation of Italian love, Futurist Marinetti produced a few of his "Aero-Poems...