Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini, who hoped to model his Fascist state on the Roman Empire, emerged from hiding long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fascist Party, wearily admitted its decline & fall. The Duce lauded fellow Italians who died for his ideal, politely thanked his Nazi hosts for a good...
...Primers, illustrated with colorful pictures of Fascist soldiers, taught the alphabet with such examples as "F as in fascio." One of the first reading lessons: " 'Duce, Duce,' the voice of the children reaches up into the office where the Duce is working. The Duce hears it and smiles and works for them. Says the Duce: 'Be good children and obey. To obey is your first duty...
Fortnight ago Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
...Rome an astonished carabinieri officer blinked, gasped, began to count. Never had he seen so many pregnant romanas trudging back from visits to the countryside. He remembered Mussolini and his medals for motherhood. But Il Duce was gone. Could it be that his works were marching on? The suspicious carabiniere decided to investigate, uncovered a widespread fraud. In fitted containers under their clothes the "pregnant" women were delivering olive oil to Rome's black-market buyers. A few days of prenatal checkups yielded ten tons...
...voice went on: ". . . The Führer suffered no injuries except light burns and bruises. . . . He resumed work and, as scheduled, received the Duce. . . . A short time after, Reich Marshal Goring arrived. . . ." Wounded with Hitler were 12 of his military advisers, some of them seriously. That...