Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini's show and small limelight did he give Adolf Hitler. Up to the very morning of their meeting in Venice last week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or double-cross. Each whipped his Press into absolute silence. Round about Venice, which Il Duce had not visited for eleven years, citizens, puzzled by elaborate preparations for they knew not what, jumped to a conclusion that Crown Prince Umberto was coming. Germans supposed their Chancellor was still in the Fatherland until their Press told them that he was already soaring over the Alps. Rome...
...hrer, he strode clear around the square inspecting Fascist militiamen. During the review which followed Mussolini gave each section the Roman salute while Hitler bowed to each from the hips. Since the German could say nothing in Italian the speech of the day was made by Il Duce from a balcony while Der Führer retired behind a window. "Chancellor Hitler and I have not met to remake the map of the world!" shouted the Great Orator with his favorite trick
...Corps affairs, and recanted points of sworn testimony. General Foulois promptly branded the charges "most unfair and unjust," asked for an open hearing in court. Popular in and out of the service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best met by one contractor; hinted that "Benny" Foulois was being "made the goat" by higher officers responsible for the weakness of the Air Corps. But all Washington knew...
...summers ago in the quiet of his mountain lodge Organist Yon felt inspired to tell in music the story of the Irish Saint for whom his Cathedral was named. Back in New York he commissioned a libretto from Armando Romano, an editor of Il Progresso. Last week, thanks to Humbert Fugazy and Bart Manfredi, two devout Roman Catholic prizefight promoters who furnished the necessary backing, New York heard the world premiere of The Triumph of St. Patrick...
Behind Benito Mussolini's frown are concealed the talents of a tabloid editor, a great phrasemaker, sociologist, seer and conclusion-jumper. Last week his own newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There...