Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bulbous balloons. (P. 28, col. 2.) Il duce giggled...
...order not to embarrass il duce del Fascismo, all the Ministers of Benito Mussolini's Cabinet tendered their resignations to their chief; he received them without comment...
Hardly had he shaken the dust of Rome from his feet when a wordy tournament broke out between Fascisti "Savages," who think they should not he disarmed until "il duce" (the leader, Mussolini) has passed strong legislative measures to repress once and for all his enemies, and the Fascisti "Legalists," who advocate disarmament and observation of law and order...
Still the quarrel went on. Deputy Farinacci, "Savage" leader, wrote in his journal Cremona Nuova: "The spectacle which Rome offers during Mussolini's absence is discouraging. Luckily 'il duce' will soon be back in Rome, and he is above all critics and super-critics ; he is above all candidates and would-be candidates for ministries and under secretaryships...
...report to me what is happening in Italy. They usually stay with me under half an hour and then go away. I am grateful to them for their collaboration, but I assume full responsibility for everything my Government does." Drawing attention to the duties of Fascismo, "il duce" (the leader-Mus-solini) eulogized the movement thus: "As a doctrine of strength, of beauty, of discipline, of responsibility, of everything that is in opposition to all those manifestations which constitute the political life of the greater part of the world, Fascism has become a beacon of light shining in Rome...