Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian public debt securities to the value of 140,000.000 lire ($7,300,000) were symbolically burned upon two Pagan altars by Il Duce. The securities had been contributed by patriotic citizens, and their destruction of course reduced the public debt by the amount of their face value and interest. The Pagan altars employed were originally used to offer up sacrifices to Goddess Minerva and Goddess Lucina...
...Arbiter Benito Mussolini made known his will that "club," "cocktail," "trolley," "tram" and other foreign words which have crept into Italian shall be expunged. Furthermore notice was given that all patriots will distinctly sound and roll the Italian "r" particularly in "Roma...
...Fascist "Year VI" ended last week, and the "Year VII" began. This chronology is official. All Italian state papers are now doubly dated, once from the birth of the Saviour and again from the inception of the Fascist Regime?just six years...
...Pomona was an Italian Goddess of fruit and gardens. In Ovid she is wooed by Vertumnus, God of the Changing Seasons...
...most successful in history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success, to create the Brunner Mond Co. and the Mond Nickel Co., to amass a large and surprisingly good collection of Italian Madonnas, and to beget Alfred Moritz Mond...