Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...
...Vagabond suggests that the appearance of Will Rogers in person at the Met beginning tomorrow is a proper reason for rejoicing. Finally, there remain the always enjoyable Pops. The program for tonight follows: TONIGHT Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner En Sourdine Tellam Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius Ave Maria Bach Gounod Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Selection, "Eileen" Herbert Waltz "Vienna Blood" Strauss Triumphal March from "Aida" Verdi
...feel perfectly tranquil and safe among this mass of workers,"* mildly observed Il Duce, no longer ravenous and raving, last week to 150,000 workmen in a third and placid speech at Milan?the speech of a man who has dined and is content. ". . . It is unnecessary to recount what the Fascist Government has done for labor. We think of your interests, all your needs, because we love you as workers and fellow-Italians. Today's feast of labor shows how the regime respects labor and the workers...
Upon 18 aged toilers who had worked for the same firms 50 years, and upon two who had records of 60 years, Il Duce then pinned the Fascist decoration known as "The Star of Labor...
...editor of the original Fascist paper Il Popolo d'ltalia in Milan, Signor Benito Mussolini was threatened constantly by the Socialist Chamber of Labor, kept a quantity of hand grenades about his office to cow "the enemy." An old employee, Margherita G. Sarfatti, writes in her authorized biography of Il Duce that "one day, the office boy, all unconscious of danger, was about to light the fire in the stove, just then full of bombs." She once reproved her editor gently thus: "Do you really think a bomb is quite a suitable thing to put a lighted cigaret...