Word: capo
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...linked his arm with Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch first, but II Capo del Governo again threw his arm around Guest Hitler's shoulders, urged him forward in Italian: "Prego!" ("I beg you!"). With a dozen police motorboats roaring ahead to chase away jay-rowing gondolas, the official launch sped for Venice between two squadrons of Italian war boats which thundered salutes...
...winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria da Capo, The Buck in the Snow...
...cried the Dictator above the crowd's huzzahs, "muskets, machine guns, ships, airplanes and cannon are much more beautiful things!" Denying that Italy's announced building program of 29 new war boats (TIME, May 12) is a bluff, the Head of the State, more often called Il Capo than Il Duce, solemnly vowed that Italy will build every ship...
...changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio, on a balcony of which Il Capo stood. -'No, No!" rumbled the ocean of voices, 'you are not changed! Viva Il Capo! VIVA IL CAPO!" Vibrant with exultation, overpowered as well he might be by the effect he had produced. Benito Mussolini shouted from the balcony with rapturous joy, "Magnifico ! Magnified !" Next day of course...
...good standing with the Soviet Government and last summer was made member of the Central Executive Committee. He is one of the most popular figures in Russia, though he spends most of his time (nine months a year) in Italy, in a villa at Capo di Sorrento rented from an Italian duke. Consumptive most of his life, like many consumptives he has great energy, works from six a. m. till one; in the evening till late at night. The Literary Guild, which has chosen Bystander as its April selection, has invited Author Gorki to come...