Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Signer Mussolini's speech, which was promptly hailed by Fascists as great, definitive and prophetic, he was watched by a young girl and a man greatly resembling Premier Mussolini, who sat together in the Diplomatic Gallery. These intent watchers were Dictator Mussolini's daughter, Edda, and brother, Arnaldo. They applauded fiercely when II Duce cried at last...
...followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor of his character, ceases to be a spectator, joins the big show. Author McCready has the ability to tell a swift...
...COUNTESS-Anne Douglas Sedgwick-Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). And another little French girl...
...Telephone Girl (Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn). A political boss uncovers illicit love in his opponent's past. But he needs the name of the lady involved to make the scandal complete. After a frantic search pivoting about the telephone girl, he discovers the faintly scarlet woman is his daughter. Speedy melodrama capably acted...
...succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...