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One result of this growth was an abundance of new streets that needed names; the worthies of the Risorgimento largely filled the bill.
In it, he attacked vigorously three worthies well-known for their opinions about English--William Savage Landor, Thomas De Quincey, and (lengthily) Richard Grant White.
The pedagogical pretensions of encyclopedic dictionaries must be taken with a grain of salt, though their skewing may be a fair reflection of the limited knowledge that speech communities have of the worthies of whom other speech communities boast.
New bureaucratic functionaries now had to keep track of individuals they might never meet, and they (and other name-givers, such as priests and other local worthies) followed a few simple rules for distinguishing one Giovanni from another.
These worthies lured the red-ink-wary Dole into espousing an across-the-board 15 percent tax-rate cut that even the average voter (not to mention most of Wall Street) could spot right off as a budget buster.