Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor annoyance of Nobile's fox-terrier bitch, Titina, who often occupied one of the only two chairs in the gondola. There had been a scene at Nome when Nobile had insisted upon his right as an Italian officer to send reports of the flight to II Duce and the world in general. Amundsen had stepped up and shaken a finger in Nobile's agitated face: "You are nothing but the captain. ... I want you to know we will have no more of this." Nobile had sent his despatches anyway- Amundsen had quarrelled with the Nome Nugget...
...largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost $9,000,000. Last week in Manhattan a syndicate...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
These savings, wrote the Fascist editors, will enable Italy's unfavorable trade balance to be overcome, will result in the stabilization of the lira. Millions of hours of extra labor at no extra cost will provide a surplus for the carrying out of II Duce's triumphant program of building up the army and navy, of restoring the public buildings and monuments of Rome and other Italian cities to the splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session...
...Duce's disfavor-has almost the German genius for obscurity in his metaphysical philosophy of the spirit. He is at his best in esthetics, urging on the world the worship of beauty...