Word: ghettos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious...
Thus an old Jew, to his five sons. The House of Rothschild, born in the Frankfurt Ghetto "between the city wall and a ditch," was governed by rules as strict as those of a military academy...
...shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
THAT MAN HEINE?Lewis Browne?Macmillan ($3). Heinrich Heine, probably Germany's greatest lyric poet, was born in the ghetto of Dusseldorf on the Rhine. Tortured at school by little boys who aped the cruelties of their elders, he would sit in his uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that...
...name of Jacob Orgen to the scroll of those who have paid with their lives for attempting to advance their fellow man, who put their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor...