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...nephew of the ex-Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear gas, the Fascists surrendered. The crowd cheered wildly...
...that glory the ashes were already thick. The dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
...Castor Seeds ..... 178,571 None...
...corporate-state system has been cut away. "Routine" shakeups in Party organizations have occured so often in the past six months that the people can scarcely keep track of them. But they do know that Mussolini has called back into power his old stalwarts of the club-and-castor-oil era, notably such "perfect Fascists" as Roberto Farinacci, now Minister of State, and Carlo Scorza, Party Secretary...
...they could be persuaded to leave the ground," says Author Michaelis, Britain's early planes could range for 50 miles at a flat-out speed of 37 m.p.h. The cylinders of "this phenomenon of motor engineering" were attached to the propeller, whirled around with it, spewing a castor-oil lubricant through their aching joints. Rotary engines of this type were used on the lighter machines right up to the end of World War I and the castor-oil fumes were said to have produced "the most stimulating results to the health of ... pilots...