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Criminal Bassani was proved by the Crown Prosecutor to have "uttered several vulgar phrases" when two women entered his shop to buy white and yellow cloth. He had jumped correctly to the conclusion that they intended to make a Papal banner and by his words "grossly insulted these inoffensive females...
...defense Eugenio Bassani pleaded: "I confess that I used the vulgar words these women have repeated in court, but I spoke in jest. By the Blessed Name of our Holy Mother, I swear that I spoke in jest...
...Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...
...decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times insensitive to the insidious threat of moral turpitude in high places, so that even...
...more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity to European standards, the new geometric style of Frank Lloyd Wright was deemed "mad" if not vulgar, and quite beneath notice. Architect Wright did not worry. He found plenty of Midwesterners either new-rich or bold enough to take an interest in his personality and ideas. The farther west he went the better he was received. In California his rectilinear houses seemed a natural evolution...