Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Benito Mussolini has often been suspected of having a suppressed desire to sneak up behind the League of Nations when it wasn't looking and hit it on the back of the head with a stout club. If this has been the plan of the Italian dictator, Emperor Haile Selassie's telegram to Geneva is a good indication that he will not have to wait much longer for the desired nervous breakdown. No matter what answer the League makes to the walling message from Ethiopia, it is certain to pay the price of one of the major blunders...
Even after all these things are arranged General Denain's work in Italy will not be finished. On Lake Garda Benito Mussolini operates the finest training school for high-speed flying in the world. His official visit ended. Air Minister Denain will spend several days at this and other Italian training schools to see if there are any new wrinkles to be picked up to teach his own blue-clad cadets...
...Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
...world of letters "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum" and many other equally serious volumes, has come forward with a successfully sustained satire on the modern detective story, the dictatorial form of government, and tabloid journalism. Feeling that "in distance there is safety," Mr. Irwin affectionately dedicates his book to "Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler...