Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian public debt securities to the value of 140,000.000 lire ($7,300,000) were symbolically burned upon two Pagan altars by Il Duce. The securities had been contributed by patriotic citizens, and their destruction of course reduced the public debt by the amount of their face value and interest. The Pagan altars employed were originally used to offer up sacrifices to Goddess Minerva and Goddess Lucina...
...private airplane of Il Duce will hereafter be piloted by Italy-to-Brazil Flyer Arturo Ferrarin (TIME, July 16), who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, last week, and officially designated, "Pilot-in-Waiting to the Head of the State...
Recently an effeminate scion pronounced "Roma" in conversation with Il Duce as though it were spelled "Woma." Instantly ablaze with indignation, the Prime Minister roared and rolled: "R-r-r-r-r-roma is pronounced R-R-R-R-R-ROMA...
...said the Duce...
...insulting taunt was hurled from a signed article by Il Duce, which all Italian newspapers obediently printed on the same day. Bachelors may well have blushed at these big black words...