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...their next important objective, stood the 8,000 ft. mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere last week did the Ethiopians fight back very hard. Safely behind the Italian lines Emperor Haile Selassie's renegade...
...places. Force of public opinion drove the castrati from the Italian stage about 1800. But, in the indignant words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th Edition), "they remained the musical glory and moral shame of the papal choir till the accession of Pope Leo XIII." Last great castrato was Professor Alessandro Moreschi, who entered the papal choir in 1883 at the age of 25, remained 30 years...
That the Dictator's smart entourage had profited from rubbing ideas with Mr. Eden, appeared when Italian Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona announced on behalf of Il Duce with a perfectly straight face: "We consider our mission in Ethiopia as sincerely and definitely to abolish slavery and to replace oppression by a harmonious regime of order. We shall give to Ethiopia the opportunity to participate in modern civilization...
...Fascist Senate at Rome last week, Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona had just finished arousing speech on his colonial budget, on conditions in the North African colony of Libya. Up to the tribune stomped Benito Mussolini himself...
...opening bang-haired Royal Cortissoz, most learned of Manhattan's art critics, sat himself down to test the library's resources. Shooting his cuffs, he called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions...