Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mario Scelba sat impassive, surveying the battlefield with agate eyes. It was the worst brawl the Italian Parliament had seen in a long time. Some believed the Communists had deliberately started the fight. Said Il Popolo: "... A deliberate maneuver to debase the dignity and efficiency of Parliament...
...Communists underestimated the alertness of the opposition. While they were debating ways & means to raise money for the affair, the right wing E.N.A.L. (National Organization for Workers' Welfare) blandly announced that it would sponsor the show this year, promptly received a generous donation from the anti-Communist Il Giornale d'ltalia...
...Prize for the Big Balloon. The frustrated Communists howled. "They are pulling a fast one," shrieked a party newspaper Il Paesa. "The Feast of Us Others is being changed to the Feast of Them There . . . Them There are the people who argue only with 1,000 lira bills . . . people who would change into toothpaste advertising even the pictures of Raphael . . ." The Communists' final blow came when they discovered that the opposition had cornered all police permits for the feast. The police took the position that if the Communists and the anti-Communists both hold processions for the Madonna...
...nights last week they gathered in the Cincinnati Zoo. There, in an open pavilion, they sat mopping and fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...
...World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected in Germany in 1932, but had never been produced in the U.S. Leavitt finally found the German version through a Manhattan publisher, changed the name to The Man in the Moon, and set about squeezing it down for Lemonade Opera...