Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that session his seldom consulted followers were reluctant to go along, although they were as unprepared for civil war as they were for peace. Next day the hammiest actor in world politics (now that Il Duce has made his exit) had to put on another show to make the League see reason...
Leftists, confident that the June 2 referendum would establish an Italian republic, dubbed Umberto Il Re di Maggio (King...
...went to construction jobs, offered his services as an albañil, or bricklayer. At last he landed a temporary...
Most of the oldtimers in the audience had sung with De Luca during the 20 years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press...
...piety of the Italians does not prevent them from cheering in church. Last week, as they packed St. Peter's to witness the pageantry which in turn witnessed that Rome was still, more than any other city, the heart of Christendom, they joyously cried "Ecco il Papa! Ecco il Papa...