Word: bene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vuoi tanto bene...
...Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
...Nota bene, that our zany...
...bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan's bronze Fountain...
...tyrant, a despot, almost an oriental sultan in his arrogant absolutism. But it seems that for the rank and file of humanity the end justifies the means. If the autocrat succeed, who shall gain-say his right to rule? So long as it is Benito who holds the sceptre, "bene...