Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peter's lofty contours slowly cast shadows over the throng. When the seminarians had all left the church there were silver trumpetings from the portico. Over the singing and stir of thousands, boomed the bells of Rome, echoing from the Seven Hills. A confusion of shouting arose: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" Down the steps tramped the Swiss Guards with glittering breastplates and halberds, down strolled a vivid mass of ecclesiasts. Two long rows of Cardinals followed, dressed in scarlet, heads bent, hands clasped in prayer...
...scarlet and gold which dispersed thick spirals of incense rising from argent censers. Behind him swayed two giant ostrich fans. As the podium was borne through the colonnade, the mass of heads turned, the air quivered with the clangor of bells, the shouts were hoarse and deafening: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa...
Having settled the wheat problem Il...
Cabinet posts not held by Il Duce are: Justice, Finance, Public Instruction, Communications, National Economy. Senator Luigi Federzoni, famed "Soft Speaker of the Vatican," from whom Signor Mussolini took the Ministry of Colonies last year (TIME, Dec. 31), was last week elected President of the Senate...
Watchful observers noted that the new deputies, all hand-picked by Il Duce, are nearly all men of elder-middle age. The one exception is 25-year-old Deputy Marcelo Diaz, son of the late Marshal Diaz, "Foch of Italy...