Word: fells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the new ministerial appointments seemed routine enough. But two key jobs-Secretary of the Fascist Party and Chief of Staff of the Army-fell to men with plenty of significance. Italy would be neutral but strong, isolated but ready. Two of the toughest bambinos in Italy came...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
...among 6,000) was allowed to wear a beard. Louis Gianopolis, an old shepherd, when taken to the prison barber to be shaved, screamed: "You're not the boss here, God is boss and you will be punished." The barber cried: "I'm the boss!" with that fell dead of a heart attack...
...cannibal. Shaw's mischief-hungry mind first conceived of Geneva when he learned that The League of Nations possessed something called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. When he decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva the committee consists of a single hen-brained Cockney typist, who manages in no time at all to have the whole continent of Europe teetering on the brink...
...political earth shook, a piece of the international sky fell on her tail feathers (see p. 23), but little Finland last week made no move to abandon her preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games, into which she has already sunk $10,000,000. Despite rumors that the Games might be transferred to Detroit, the proud Finns announced that they would not relinquish them until the last possible moment...