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...Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
Meanwhile a special train hummed northward through the night from Rome. It carried Premier Mussolini, a box of orchids, and many an aid and minion. Soon the Italian naval yacht Giuliana steamed from Leghorn with Il Duce aboard toward the Dolphin...
Short, thick, with a curly nose and an eye like a new horsechestnut; coarse-mouthed and lyric-handed, a good hater, a bad lover, a composer who made his reputation as another man would make his point in a dice game, Pietro Mascagni. It was in Leghorn, Italy, that his father baked bread, but the rumor that Pietro helped in the family trade has never been verified. Indeed, the boy Mascagni refused from the first to soil his hands with flour; he seemed to have an illimitable capacity for roistering, in reward for which, when he was sixteen, his father...
...disastrously, roamed Europe, met Shelley and Byron, recovered and cremated the former's body off Leghorn (it was he who snatched Shelley's heart from the pyre and buried it in Rome), fought beside Byron in Greece (it was he who investigated the dead Byron's feet and spread the lie about a cloven hoof), married a Greek chieftain's sister, suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids...
...promptly evident. Edda, invited to go for a motor trip by friends at Parma, telegraphed her father for permission. When the answer was delayed she replied to entreaties that she "come along anyhow": "Non! I am a disciplined Fascist. Without permission from my Duce* I refuse to move!" Near Leghorn, squadristi (gunmen) riddled a railway coach which they thought contained Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist Party and "big personal friend" of Benito Mussolini. Signer Farinacci, having chanced to miss his train, escaped death. Foiled, the squadristi vowed that he had ordered them to murder numerous Masons at Florence...