Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, Premier Mussolini found occasion to pronounce a decisive "last word" upon the week's developments concerning the Italian Alto Adige, formerly the Austrian (Southern) Tyrol (see AUSTRIA). Cried Il Benito to correspondents...
...affirmative win be upheld by W. C. Poletti IL and K. J. White '27, while W. S. Stone '26 and C.T. Lane '26 will take the negative...
Historians and lovers of the arts found their thoughts a little stirred, as always, by the name of those art patrons par excellence, the Borghese. Il Benito, as he rode through their onetime gardens* was well within sight of the Villa Borghase-next to the Vatican the chiefest art treasure-house in Rome. He may have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese...
When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get so brutal and unflattering a likeness of Il Duce past the Fascist censor. They dismissed the bust as an unpleasant thing to look upon and turned away...
Stresemann Retorts. Foreign Minister Stresemann ascended the Reichstag Tribune, delivered the Cabinet's rebuke to Il Benito with ponderous almost unemotional thoroughness: "The German Government must decline to reply to Premier Mussolini in a tone which is better suited to mass meetings than to diplomatic conversation with other nations...