Blackshirt

Famed conductor Arturo Toscanini refused to play the fascist party anthem in the theater or elsewhere, earning him a beating from Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

Mussolini’s roving bands of Blackshirts, “bursting with appetites,” wielded clubs with precision, “bashing both sides of the mouth, both mandibular joints, in order to fracture the jaws.”

Rule Britannia has had its place - but so have Bovril, balls, Blackshirts and a bombastic celebration of the Bard.

Thus, it was primarily “sexual appeal” that inspired Diana to abandon her first husband for the “charismatic and attractive” Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Blackshirts.

Nebraska will wear black alternate jerseys with a skull and crossbones on the shoulder in a nod to the program’s “Blackshirt” defense tradition.