Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...
Reported Dead. Virginia Gayda, 58, longtime (1926-43) Mussolini mouthpiece; for the nth time since Il Duce was ousted last July; in an Allied bombing of Rome...
...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...group will then sing the final chorus from "Il Matrimonio Segreto," by Cimarosa, two Italian folk songs, two catches by Purcell, and "The March of the Peers," from Iolanthe," by Sullivan. After singing "Tarantella," written for the Yale Glee Club of 1937 by Randall Thompson and "Casey Jones," arranged for the Harvard Glee Club of 1939 by Edward B. Lawton '34, the Glee Club will conclude by singing "Father William," from Alice in Wonderland," written for last year's Harvard Glee Club by Irving G. Fine '37, who is now assistant conductor of the Glee Club...
Telling his people that no war lasts forever, Hitler reminded them that after four years of fighting the Reich had not lost "one square kilometer of soil." The year ended had been one of heavy reverses: the Russian offensive, the loss of Africa, the downfall of Il Duce, the rise of Tito; the year beginning, he grimly warned, would see the war's crisis. He said that German preparation to meet the Allied invasion had gone forward on "a scale that will probably surprise our enemies more than their landing will surprise us." The Russian front, he admitted...