Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names of dogs, cats, dead men and a pet parrot named "John Talk." Atlantic City's population is some 57,000, of which some 10.000 are schoolchildren. Registrations reached the suspicious total...
...Italian public debt securities to the value of 140,000.000 lire ($7,300,000) were symbolically burned upon two Pagan altars by Il Duce. The securities had been contributed by patriotic citizens, and their destruction of course reduced the public debt by the amount of their face value and interest. The Pagan altars employed were originally used to offer up sacrifices to Goddess Minerva and Goddess Lucina...
...private airplane of Il Duce will hereafter be piloted by Italy-to-Brazil Flyer Arturo Ferrarin (TIME, July 16), who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, last week, and officially designated, "Pilot-in-Waiting to the Head of the State...
...about as we please concerning our studies in Cambridge," averred C. T. Hamton IL yesterday. Hamton is the holder of a Davidson Scholarship and has just come to this country from the English University. "If we do not like a lecture all we have to do is walk out and try another course," he continued. "The average student spends about three hours a day at classes and studies, while five hours a day spent in the pursuit of knowledge is all that could be asked of any member of the college. In America you are far too pressed for time...
Suddenly, surprisingly the heartbreaking tension snapped, as Il Capo smiled his peculiarly magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...