Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...IL DUCE PREVAILS...
...Il Gabriele's retreat* on the shores of Lago di Garda is a residence of such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck...
...Il Gabriele announced recently that he will not stir from his literary workshop at Gardone until All Saints' Day (Nov. 1). "Nothing," he declared, "shall interrupt my daily labors save an unanticipated thunderbolt...
...Louis Home-Trained Chorus (96) will attempt "grand opera" only once (Il Trovatore), will warble Iolanthe, The Red Mill, The Chocolate Soldier...
Married. Attilio Teruzzi, Under Secretary of State for Internal Affairs in the Mussolini Cabinet, to Lillian Lorma, U. S. singer. Il Duce presented the bride with a rich jewel case; Conductor "Tito" Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera, gave her 150 pieces of Venetian glass...