Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficient today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...
...Blackface War, Paleface Bruno Mussolini, youngest Italian bombster, was only 17 when Pappa made war, is now going to fly by hops to California, then try to make it from San Francisco to Rome, nonstop. With him, just in case, will ride Major Attilio Biseo, personal pilot to Il Duce. . . . Pappa say no, no and NO the other day to keep Daughter Edda in town for the family weddings, but Countess Edda is her great big daddy's rock candy from way back, and last week she again reserved on the Conte di Savoia, sliding her into Manhattan...
...Corso Umberto Primo or Street of Humbert I is Rome's "Central Street," ends at Il Duce's office, contains the best shops, better-than-Broadway hotels, adjoins theatres and would adjoin "hotspots" except that Il Duce has drastically cooled all these...
Diplomacy. Middle of the week the German Government and the Italian Government stood shoulder to shoulder in replying to Anglo-French notes proposing that further arrivals in Spain of non-Spanish warriors be halted. In the involved language of diplomacy Der Führer and Il Duce professed themselves ready to assist in halting the influx of warriors, on condition that those already in Spain, together with foreign agitators and other foreign aid all be cleared out. Nazi newsorgans roared that "the Red agents of Moscow" must not be permitted to remain in Spain, and raised the issue...
Even Stanley Baldwin's warmest enemy, sanctions-badgered Benito Mussolini, was enough of a Great Editor last week to agree that the Prime Minister had been great in handling the Empire crisis of Edward VIII. Il Duce dictates daily the tone of Italy's press and the following handsome admission in Giornale d'ltalia might have been tagged To Stanley from Benito: "Prime Minister Baldwin has served the interests of his country worthily by facing the painful but necessary battle to separate, even up to extreme consequences, Edward's private life from the duties that...