Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liar" is not the first play of Italy's foremost comedy-writer, Goldoni (1707-1793), to be brought before University audiences in recent years. Professor K. McKenzie's translation of "Il Ventaglio" ("The Fan") was produced some years ago with success by the Yale Dramatic Club, and a playbill of "Mirandolina"--as Lady Gregory has entitled her version of "La Locandiera"--has just come to hand from Oxford...
...constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...
...Il Corriere della Sera, Milanese journal, has had a hard row to hoe since Fascism came into vogue. Although it has been moderate to the point of insipidity in its adverse criticism of Fascismo and "il duce " (Mussolini), that did not prevent three bombs being thrown into the newspaper's building in Milan. Signor Albertini, the editor, attributed the outburst to a violent article which recently appeared in Il Popolo d'ltalia, allegedly Signor Mussolini's newspaper...
...withdrawal was regarded as certain to cause the fall of Premier Theunis, who had leaned heavily on U. S. intervention, so heavily that Paris was considered unlikely to be able to restore his equilibrium in Brussels. In Italy, the solemn-faced Dictator, Premier Benito Mussolini, was " gravely disappointed," and IL Giornale d'ltalia, Rome journal, said: "We cannot lend our support to France's intransigent attitude upon this occasion." In Britain, the news was received with mixed feelings. The Rothermere press, of which the Hearst press in the U. S. is the prototype, declared for Premier Poincar...
Then, with aeroplanes flying above, Mussolini led his Fascisti legions past the King. Eight thousand Fascisti at the Roman salute marched past His Majesty and loud and long were the cries of Evviva il Re! Evvica Savoia...