Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese mourned universally last week the death of Field Marshal Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, whose life exactly spanned the modern Imperial Era of Japan.
Fascist masons toiled furiously, early in the week, to construct an imposing dais between the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum, with stones taken from the nearby Temple of Venus. As "the 2,680th? anniversary of Rome "dawned," the dais was spread with draperies of imperial red. Upon it were...
Silence. Upon this triple holiday?at once "the Birthday of Rome," "Colonial Day" and "the Fascist Labor Day"?Premier Mussolini was expected by many a Fascist to make some striking and imperial pronouncement. Instead II Duce preserved a silence that was deafening. . . .
"Birthday." Governor Cremonesi of Rome inaugurated the work of clearing away ignoble buildings throughout the city in order that her ancient monuments may stand out and new imperial structures rise.
Within the flaming personality of Mussolini is a cold nucleus, an icy core of reason and discretion. Last week, however, as he continued in triumphal style through Italian Tripoli (TIME, April 19), that warm and colorful land seemed to quicken in him a mood of expansive wellbeing. His utterances mellowed...