Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Such were the self-revealing remarks of Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a Swiss correspondent who referred by chance, in Il Duce's presence, to the famed mutton chop whiskers of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz...
...orchestra, made the prize catch of the year. The directors announced that they had engaged Arturo Toscanini, world-famed Director of La Scala in Milan, as a regular conductor; he will lead the Philharmonic symphony in 41 concerts next season. Conductor Toscanini, slim, volatile, once successfully defied Il Duce; he is considered the world's finest leader of orchestras...
...called for flight across the desert southwest to the Pacific, north to Seattle, back (following lakes) to Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland, the Azores, Portugal, Rome. He hoped to get home on April 21, anniversary of Rome's founding, certain of a prodigious "triumph." All Italy is placarded by Il Duce's aviation recruiting posters: "Don't YOU want to become a De Pinedo...
Counterblast. If Il Duce was mobilizing Albania against Jugoslavia, he took shrewd measures to cover his tracks and conceal his plans. In London, Berlin, the Italian Ambassadors ostentatiously informed the British and German governments, likewise the press, that Jugoslavia was rapidly mobilizing last week against Albania; but that the Italian Government would bend its every effort toward peace...