Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is what geese and German soldiers do. Last week in Rome it was done by 2,000 Black Shirts before Il Duce. The active Dictator became so elated that he jumped down from the reviewing stand, placed himself and his entire staff at the head of the 2,000 Black Shirts, led them swiftly in the passo romano clear across the parade ground...
...Duce, I thank you for what you give me to make me grow healthy and strong! O Lord God, protect Il Duce, so that he may be long preserved to Fascist Italy...
...Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano; keen, Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self-styled "Rome-Berlin Axis," has brought Rumania under its influence. Therefore Premier Mussolini had not considered it necessary...
...singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost the only woman who does not know Mussolini's face." Pauly apologized, said she didn't know much about politicians. "Brava! Brava!" exclaimed II Duce, "that is a true woman. Women should not bother themselves with politics; their business is in the home...
Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...