Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carriages then proceeded from the station to Hyde Park Corner, down Constitutional Hill to Buckingham Palace. The route was lined with soldiers and police, behind whose cordons were tens of thousands of cheering spectators. "Little Italy" (Italian colony in London) was there, waving the Italian tricolor and shouting "Viva il Re" and "Viva Savoia." Inside the Palace Court was drawn up a guard of honor composed of the Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters) dressed in their picturesque Tudor uniforms...
Hardly had he shaken the dust of Rome from his feet when a wordy tournament broke out between Fascisti "Savages," who think they should not he disarmed until "il duce" (the leader, Mussolini) has passed strong legislative measures to repress once and for all his enemies, and the Fascisti "Legalists," who advocate disarmament and observation of law and order...
Still the quarrel went on. Deputy Farinacci, "Savage" leader, wrote in his journal Cremona Nuova: "The spectacle which Rome offers during Mussolini's absence is discouraging. Luckily 'il duce' will soon be back in Rome, and he is above all critics and super-critics ; he is above all candidates and would-be candidates for ministries and under secretaryships...
...driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning fanaticism. Instead of being directed with the idea of improving the health standard of the average sum of students, sports were seized upon as a means of institutional advertising, and were regarded in themselves as the ultimate...
...every day and report to me what is happening in Italy. They usually stay with me under half an hour and then go away. I am grateful to them for their collaboration, but I assume full responsibility for everything my Government does." Drawing attention to the duties of Fascismo, "il duce" (the leader-Mus-solini) eulogized the movement thus: "As a doctrine of strength, of beauty, of discipline, of responsibility, of everything that is in opposition to all those manifestations which constitute the political life of the greater part of the world, Fascism has become a beacon of light shining...