Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini's official biographer, Margherita Sarfatti, writes that one day, as Il Duce was pacing his great room in the Chigi Palace, she asked him what his ambition...
...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...
Names. In St. Augustine, Fla., saying "It costa me ten bucks but I like mucha better," Shrimper Tomas DiGrande got permission to change the name of his boat from Il Duce to Diana. In Chicago, House Painter Samuel Joshua Hitler asked to have his name changed to Gitler. In Hartford, Conn., Arnold Alvin De Ribbentrop, asked to be called Robinson...
...third able Rome representative of his paper to be told in the past 27 months he must go. Fascist officials found genial Tennessean Whitaker's dispatches "displeasing." They could not have liked much better the Daily News's general treatment of Fascist Italy and of Benito Mussolini. Il Duce was recently cartooned in the News puking over the side of a ship into the Mediterranean while the Führer rushes up with a trayful of seasickly dishes tagged "Spanish Hot Tamales, Greece, Turkey, Hungarian Goulash." The Daily News announced that it will send no replacement to Rome...
...problem was apparently in its preliminary stages in the Balkans. Day after it had been announced that Germany's Naval Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder went to the Italian Alps to reassure Italy's Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Benito Mussolini's paper Il Popolo d'Italia promised that "something very big" was coming up. The British indicated that they were giving the problem some thought...