Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces of conciliation won? Secretary Turati decided that if they had, he would sour the wine of their victory. He published an edict prohibiting all imported (therefore, French) wines at Fascist dinners or militia messes. As everyone knows, most Italian wines are totally without merit...
Time was when the world of Paris fashions would have trembled at such an edict from the powerful Poiret. But the maker of modes confessed himself outmoded when, a fortnight ago, he lamented: "I am no longer necessary. ... I shall leave the Paris which is no longer the Paris I have known. I shall solace myself in an old chateau surrounded by fairy-like gardens...
Skirts. Last week, His Holiness the Pope issued a thunderous edict. Modesty, he declared, is an essential part of godliness. Said His Holiness: "Early Christian women, dragged into the circus at Rome to be devoured by wild animals, were more concerned in covering their nudity than in saving their lives." Obediently, dressmakers dropped skirts a full two inches, brought their hems to a point between 1½ and 2 inches below the bend in the knee...
...life of the average Italian citizen has undergone such severe regulation of late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will...
Lady Mary, champion woman aviator of 1927 by edict of the International League of Aviators, is taking the 6,000-mile trip from London to Cape Town solely for amusement-"to see how far I can go." She is taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband...