Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black Cadillac. Crowds jammed the lovely, narrow streets of the city of Augustus, of St. Peter, of Garibaldi, of Comrade Togliatti. The cheers shook the ancient stones. Women wept. Children, perching on their fathers' shoulders, waved and repeated the shout they heard all about them: "Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa...
...oldest witness of Western civilization. One of his predecessors faced Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is an office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli...
...Wall Street and Tammany Hall." Copies of the Wall Street Journal (New York City circ. 14,576) and Journal of Commerce (N.Y.C. circ. 13,310) were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Even such foreign-language dailies as La Prensa, Staats-Zeitung und Her old and Il Progresso Italo-Americano sold fast. The sensational weekly Enquirer (est. circ. 75,000) turned into a daily and upped its press run the first day of the strike to 250,000, went to 500,000, then was forced to skip a few days because "we're awfully tired." Newspaper...
...music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
...family of Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini who died with him at the hands of a Milanese mob in 1945, sued the Italian government for return of 36 love !enters from Il Duce to Clara, plus pages from her diary and other personal documents. Although the government confiscated the papers because of their "national historical interest." Rome buzzed with the word that the letters are not yet entirely historical. As the rumor went, the government is reluctant to part with evidence that many a now prominent Italian asked favors of Mussolini through the dictator's doxy...