Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest French-speaking orator of their party now alive. His fame is international, his Socialism orthodox, courageous, enlightened. Therefore he did something last week, which recalled his refusal to shake hands with Signor Benito Mussolini at the Locarno Conference (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) on the imputed grounds that Il Duce is a backslidden Socialist turned traitor to "The Cause...
...upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value of the lira (TIME, Sept. 13), Signor Mussolini has made the new (lower) rentals which must be accepted by landlords worth as much...
...Majesty Il Re Vittorio Emanuele is a Neapolitan, but not typical. True citizens of Naples are swart, merry fellows, quick to laugh, quicker to bluster, and apt to be stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...
...Il Re Vittorio Emanuele, having seen the excavation well started, returned to Naples. There the proverbially negligent inhabitants have recently completed a subway under the driving impetus of Fascismo. Moreover the boulevard along the seafront, long pot-holed and undulant, is now smooth. His Majesty looked upon these things and found them good. That night fireworks spurted up from a barge anchored in the bay, and Vesuvius made notable His Majesty's visit by an almost polite eruption. No lava spilled from the great cone, but jets of pinky-lighted steam spurted high, portentous rumblings were heard, and few rocks...
...visit of Il Re had been a complete, spectacular success...