Word: hodding
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Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...
...Register before journeying on, inscribed his bold autograph: Benito Mussolini . . . Aug. 5, 1903. Last week an itinerant newsgatherer unearthed this autograph, sent news of it humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend...
...adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...
...influx of the football men has resulted in a shifted line-up. Captain Crosby is back at his old position on the defence, but Hammond will not go on the ice at the start of the game. Since the Boston Hockey Club contest a week ago in which Hod- der was slated as playing at right defence, the 1925 Freshman captain has been working with the forwards. During his period of action last Friday he frequently moved up to the offense, but tonight will be the first time he has been regularly assigned to the position of right wing...