Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straw. Outside, in the Piazza of St. Peter, is the mob, its eyes on a chimney. Smudgy black smoke indicates burning straw. Days pass. After 14 ballots the mob sees that the smoke is thin, white. "Habemus Pontificem!" We have a Pope! Cries the mob: "Un Papa! Viva il Papa...
...dancing. The 31st U. S. Infantry arrived from Manila to the roaring strains of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," and officers prepared for a long stay by looking for apartments in town. Reporters interviewed Countess Ciano, better known as Edda Mussolini, wife of the Italian Consul General. She, busy feeding Il Duce's grandson, complained that the curfew law interfered with her social engagements. In Rome her father despatched Admiral Domenico Cavagnari with a cruiser and a destroyer to help protect her and other Italians...
Last month Politico Albizu y Campos struck. Local newspapers printed fac similes of the letter. For those unable to read English, there were translations into Spanish. Every third Puertorriqueno is il literate. To such, spellbinders read the horrendous tidings. The Pope in Vatican City received a photostat of the holograph...
...improve the Italian figure, and incidentally to help Italian rice growers, Il Duce proposed that every honest Italian eat two pounds additional rice per year...
Writers of such letters soon receive a note couched in stiffest, most formal Italian, such as Il Duce wrote to Humble Servant Turati...