Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accent came with the next words. Try 'as he might Il Duce could not keep up the pace he had set with "ladies and gentlemen." His Italian larynx clipped "people" first to "peepl" and finally to "peep." His "the" gradually became...
Frenchmen were listening in, listening hard. To them the speech was far more important than to Americans. Italy is their potential enemy and vice versa. Next day the entire Paris press betrayed profound relief at the quiet tone of Il Ditce's speech, the solemn, personal nature of his long keynote...
...promise was to Lady Curzon, handsome American wife of the late Baron Curzon of Kedleston. Just before his departure from the Lausanne Conference in 1922, Il Duce said to her: "I could not write an English letter to you today. But within a month I shall be able to do so and I promise you you shall receive...
Brother Arnaldo Mussolini, editor of the family newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia of Milan, had Italians guessing last week at what he meant by this cryptic statement...
Under "potted palms" lurked Embassy secretaries "similarly armed." All the Ambassador's Italian servants "except his trusted butler" had been given the afternoon off, lest one of them assassinate Il Duce. To the Ambassador and Mrs. Garrett a friend sent humorous congratulations (for the point of the story was supposed to be that Il Duce had never before humored an Embassy hostess by a tea call). Came from Rome last week this cabled reply: EXCEPT FOR REVOLVERS RISKS SERVANTS SECRETARIES POTTED PALMS CORNERS AND SIX-SHOOTERS THE ARTICLE IS A TISSUE OF TRUTH STOP MERRY CHRISTMAS. JOHN AND ALICE...