arditi

Peasants in Italy celebrated their harvest festivals in 1919 in Naples when Mussolini's arditi were beating bloody the local communists in Milan.

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It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

Cut off from its Yugoslav hinterland the population of Rieka, which consisted more and more of arditi and fascisti, less and less of Yugoslavs, the population had nothing to do save to speculate in the rate of exchange

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

They are accustomed on such expeditions to steal the children and hold them to ransom -- a lucrative operation which d'Annunzio's arditi [91] may have copied from their Albanian colleagues.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

Nevertheless three platoons appeared, each with one officer and one N.C.O. The adjutant's platoon distinguished itself, for while the arditi attacked anyone they saw, including women and children, with the butt end of their muskets, Lieut. Giovanoni laid about him with a dog-whip.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

There were two parties, that of the C.N.I., swollen with arditi and fascisti, who would have nothing to do with the Treaty of Rapallo -- their programme consisted in annexation to Italy -- and the other party, whose object was to carry out the provisions of the Treaty.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

Italy and said they had been captured by d'Annunzio's arditi.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

As we steamed out of the harbour four or five carabinieri and arditi were running along the road parallel with us, others were climbing over the stone walls -- apparently it was a man-hunt.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

Council, that the slightest action on the part of the Yugoslavs would provoke terrible measures on the part of d'Annunzio's arditi, who would spare neither women nor children ....

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

His brave fellows, the arditi, so he said, had plenty of machine guns and of ammunition.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917