Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval...
...Country!" Meanwhile last week Benito Mussolini was trying to repair the stupidity he has committed for months in not courting World public opinion. No democratic leader would have dreamed of preparing a war without making it appear Right & Just in advance. Il Duce, whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games...
...ensuing mimic struggle of 500,000 Italians was pitched in Il Duce's characteristic vein of irony. His "Reds" succeeded in keeping the King's "Blues" from invading the Fascist Kingdom...
Grasping Romano's shoulders with a soldierly grip, Il Duce said: "You have spoken well, but your military class has not been called...
...Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...