Word: eia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul Riccardi & staff gave the famed rising Fascist cheer, "eia-eia-eia-alala!" for Signor Mussolini. Diplomats deemed the swiftness with which satisfaction was demanded and given virtually a record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with our cowardly...
...Eia, da, alala! Battle call of the Fascisti...
Straightway the Premier's news-organ, II Giornale d'Italia, began a contest to choose names for the cubs. Scores of Fascists suggested "Bastone,"* "Eia"† and "Alala."† Some hundreds of imperialist Fascists suggested the names of three areas which Italy would like to wrest from France: "Nice," "Savoie" and "Tunis...
...Fascist "war cry" (TiME, Nov. 29) is "Eia, eia, eia, alala!" a meaningless exclamation like...
...upon whoever touches him.' Every window held Mussolini's portrait. Fascist bands marched deliriously all night. . . . Mussolini arrived in a brilliant uniform with an aigrette a foot high on his head. The regular army and fascist battalions goose-stepped before him shouting the Fascist war cry, 'Eia, eia, eia, alala.* Mussolini was ushered in by the same war-cry when he addressed the scientific congress. He spoke mainly about the role that science plays in wartime. He said that he expected chemists to discover even more poisonous gases, and so be able to overcome more easily...