Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy. As dramatically as Horatius at the Bridge, Signor Benito Mussolini has taken stance on the principle that English language talkies shall not pass into Italy? but in practice Il Duce makes not a few exceptions, personally...
...Il Duce's private talkie theatre, the hero of a U. S. film entitled Il Cantante Pazzo for Italian consumption recently wailed at Il Duce: "Mammy! Mammy...
...Rome tall, somewhat imperious Edda Mussolini, whose dark brown eyes have the snap and fire of Il Duce's own, was marrying Galeazzo Ciano, son of Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano di Cortellazzo?a Fascist comparatively little known outside of Italy. But L'Avenir claimed to have positive information that directly after announcement of the engagement on Feb. 15, 1930 the Fascist Grand Council at Rome appointed Count Costanzo Ciano to be II Duce's successor in the event of the Dictator's resignation or death. If printed by an irresponsible sheet this "exclusive revelation" could be safely ignored...
...Bridal Veils and Mrs. Wurts. To deck the small Church of St. Joseph for the wedding huge tapestries were borrowed from the City of Rome and quantities of flowers brought from the vast gardens of Il Duce's residence just down the street, the Villa Torlonia, where he has lived as the guest of aristocratic Prince Giovanni Torlonia since...
...presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...