Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the roots of many languages was Esperanto? evolved by a Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, whose pensive, bearded face done in oils looked down upon the convening Esperantists last week. Esperanto sounds like an Italian or Spanish patois...
...Rome, Ga., is a textile mill. Its cornerstone, another Mussolini gift, was sent last year from the Coliseum's crumbling walls. The American Chatillon Rayon Co. was started on Italian capital. Therein lay the cause for the Mussolini corner stone, the Mussolini she-wolf, which will be formally presented by an Italian mill executive. In the U. S. there are 13 other Romes. No Italian mills have they, hence no she-wolves...
Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice...
...tabloid" to Italian-speaking Easterners and they think of the conservative Corriere d'America (circulation, 56,369), a terse, thoroughgoing little Manhattan daily founded in 1922 to print news, not girl and horror pictures...
Gleefully last week anti-tobacco leagues and anti-cigaret societies pointed to young King Zog of Albania as a frightful warning. Having smoked a small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that...