Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pays you is always in the right. Saturday evening came. I said to the padrone I intended to leave and therefore wished to be paid. He went into his office. I remained in the lobby. Presently he came out. With ill-disguised rage he threw into my hands 20 lire and some centesimi, saying: 'Here is your money and it is stolen.' I remained as though made of stone. What was I to do to him? Kill him? What did I do to him? Nothing. Why? Because I was hungry and had no shoes. I had worn...
Again, Thievery. Last week thieves sneaked into the Vatican, pilfered 4,000 lire ($135) from the safe of the Directors of the Gardens, stole besides 700 lire ($23) of his personal wealth. This is the second occasion of such knavery within the month (TIME...
Vatican Strike. Forty Vatican gardeners went on a, 24-hour strike last week to "demonstrate" that their daily wage of 14 lire ($.50) for nine hours work is too little for existence. The Vatican, free of Fascist suzerainty, is now the only Italian spot where strikes are not illegal...
Thieves last week stole 30,000 lire ($1080) from the administrative office of St. Peter's in Rome. They missed several hundred thousand lire tied in bags...
...Roumanian government placed orders for five Italian submarines last week, negotiated the purchase of two old but reconditioned Italian destroyers, proposed to cover this deal financially out of the promised 200,000,000 lire Italian loan to Roumania (TIME, May 22, ITALY) which was projected as soon as the Italio-U. S. debt agreement was signed...