Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been leading members of the dread, famed Mafia, a bandit gang once more potent in Sicily than the Italian Government. Seven of the condemned were sentenced to life imprisonment, others to sentences scaling down from 30 to 3 years. At Rome, the Fascist press triumphantly proclaimed that Il Duce has redeemed his pledge to exterminate the Mafia (TIME...
With lively symptoms of pleasure, Il Duce accepted as a gift, last week, a likeness of himself measuring 26 square yards in area. It had been exhibited as "The Largest Portrait Photograph in the World," at the recent National Photographic Exposition, Rome...
Teeth Takers. Thieves and murderers seized, in Odessa last week, the 75-year-old Italian Vice-Consul Signor Kozzio. Having beaten him to death, they extracted and escaped with his several gold teeth. Observers wondered whether Il Duce, justly wroth, would exact "a tooth for a tooth...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Sound Bogey. Seasoned critics overlooked the weaseling in Il Duce's statement, last week, and did not stint their praise. He had made, they knew, a sound," judicious bogey. They recalled that among all the allied powers the only one to make par in Devaluating its currency is Great Britain...