Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Soprano Zinka Milanov, Contralto Margaret Harshaw, Tenor Kurt Baum, Baritone Leonard Warren...
...Viva la Russia!" rose to the roof. Then Balabanov continued: "You are wasting time trying to interrupt me. Communists and reactionaries have been trying to do that for 45 years, and haven't succeeded yet." Amidst a crescendo of cries of "Viva la Russia!" she concluded: "Viva il Socialismo Internazionale, viva il Socialismo Italiano...
Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...roulotte (trailer) and only recently has succumbed to houses. As a boy he played gypsy music on the guitar and violin. When he was 19, he heard a record of Louis Armstrong's Dallas Blues. Said he: "The rest of the orchestra-c'est mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three guitars, a violin and bass). Their records of U.S. jazz classics (Dinah; Lady, Be Good...
...from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere is blah. They drink hardly anything...