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Word: ils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Il Duce jutted his jaw and was silent. Three times the crowd gave the usual ovation, then left Benito Mussolini free to ponder whether Fascism was likely to pass on, pass out, or pass away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Birthday Greetings from Benito | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...besoin d'aimer' came back upon my heart . . . and, after all, there is nothing like it." This time the besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour of Lady Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...very day that Il Mondo appeared, the New York Post published on its front page an interview in which Generoso Pope declared: "The quicker Hitler and the Axis powers are destroyed the better off the world will be. And when I say Axis powers that includes Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Americanization of Mr. Pope | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...final turning point came six weeks ago when Publisher Pope put his papers in the hands of the high-powered public-relations firm of Institute of Public Relations, Inc. Soon to a Montana internment camp went Il Progresso's No. 1 reporter Gene Rea, reported in a feature article that Italian prisoners were mostly happy, excellently treated. Other similar stories followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Americanization of Mr. Pope | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Last week Il Mondo, disbelieving Generoso Pope's "newfound loyalty," challenged him to print his denunciation of Mussolini in his own papers in Italian. A couple of days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Americanization of Mr. Pope | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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