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Joan Acocella recounts her ex-husband’s attempts to Italianize their Christmas.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
An American Army Air Forces lieutenant gallantly saves the day, an opportunity for Tutino to Italianize "The Star Spangled Banner" just as Puccini had in "Madama Butterfly."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
Says a Vatican spokesman: "They must de- Italianize their terms to grow in the world."
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the new law, Gina Lollobrigida can Italianize her 1968 Austrian divorce from Milko Skofic, and Maria Callas can shed Giovanni Battista Meneghini, from whom she has been separated for eleven years.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Celt in essence, thoroughly Italianate himself, and with a deep love for the picturesque, which often makes men insensible to dirt and discomfort, he expected to Italianize Herminia too rapidly.
From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant
He Italianized the middle name in college--"I hated Francis," he says--but he's only half Italian.
From Time Magazine Archive
The inside track to a job in the Metropolitan Opera Company used to turn on an Italianized name and recognized vocal experience, usually in Milan.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent his English from becoming too Italianized, he makes yearly trips to New York City, where he consults with his most "nurturing" publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Helen Wolff.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was indeed a pleasure, because this thin, highly-strung Italianized Slav, the former chief of the Radical Italian party, was full of the most fraternal sentiments towards the Slavs.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry
Nordica; Pat Foley changed into Signor Foli; and when Ellen Mitchell became great, she dropped the old name and Italianized it into Melba.
From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard
Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges.
From Time Magazine Archive
They probably thought that they were Italianizing such names.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John
These nephews drop their original name and take their mother's, Italianizing its spelling to Borgia.
From Cæsar or Nothing by How, Louis
One of the most ridiculous instances of Italianizing was in the case of Mr. John Clarke, of Brooklyn, who became Signor Giovanni Chiari di Broccolini.
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.
Of late years several singers of English and American origin have achieved distinction without the necessity of Italianizing their name,—Bispham, for instance, being a striking example.
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.
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