Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, as in many other parts of France, particularly in Alsace and Lorraine, the religious question (TIME, Sept. 8) is a favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...
...elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt, crossing themselves repeatedly. It was the tenth anniversary of the death of His Holiness, Pope Piux X-Pio il buono, the Romans call...
King by Carlo Jachino, il Gatto dagli Stivali by Giuseppe Mariani. Both were comic in plot, noble in treatment. The first is taken from a story by Ariosto; the second is, in plain English, "Puss in Boots," and follows the familiar nursery tale...
...order not to embarrass il duce del Fascismo, all the Ministers of Benito Mussolini's Cabinet tendered their resignations to their chief; he received them without comment...
...taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their noses with their fingers, especially when in the street? a practise infinitely more common than refined...