Word: avanti
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...Interior Scelba, and his month-old campaign for reform in dress. On city streets and sunlit strands, Scelba's conscientious cops cracked down on bra-top dresses and bathing suits. At Capri and the Lido, dazzling diapered beauties gazed nervously over their strapless shoulders, while the Socialist Avanti, affecting to hear the rustle of churchly robes behind the government's order, cried: "The first arrested will go down in history as martyrs...
...From the extreme left come screams of pain and wrath. The Communist press flays 'trusts and Tommies' guarding 'the Dollar Curtain.' Pro-Communist Pietro Nenni's Avanti slammed at the right for welcoming the so-called American protection: 'Germans yesterday. Americans today. Italians never...
Said the Socialist Avanti: "Thus disappears from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation...
...Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
Said the Socialist Avanti: "We want to hurry up and strengthen the vast movement of union among the working classes and to isolate through counteraction the Fascist minority and reactionary forces behind the scenes...