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High point of the debate came when aged (87) ex-Premier Orlando charged the Government with "a lust for servitude," thus throwing the sweltering chamber into screaming uproar. Meanwhile, Neo-Fascist Emilio Patrissi and Deputy Paolo Treves, a Saragattian Socialist, after a fistfight in the corridor, scheduled a duel the next day. Said Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "What counts most is that Italy gives a clear, honest and unreserved demonstration to walk the path of sacrifice toward a new dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Dignity | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...death in the snow. '"The Return" tells how a man came back to his home town years later, and how he was glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Simple Storie's | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

President Strotz was chagrined when Madison Square Garden, with connivance from its Chicago allies, euchred him out of the Schmeling-Stribling world's title fistfight contract (TIME, Jan. 26). But he and his up-&-doing backers-who include his smiling, big stockbroking brother Harold-vow not soon again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chicago Circus | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight between Bingo's sweetheart and another suitor in a ballroom during a fashionable party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married, and for a month, at least, knew enchantment. Then?Squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Centaur* | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

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