Word: lire
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...Fascist financial magazine, Finanza (Rome), authoritatively proposed, last fortnight, that the State should establish a Marriage Bank. Purpose: to loan 10,000 lire ($527) to each laboring bachelor of good standing who may seek such a sum in order to marry, set up housekeeping, beget. Finanza proposed that repayment of the loan be made "automatically by a monthly levy on the husband's wages...
...said the Tutor in History, "romance and adventure have disappeared from modern times. I took a bicycle trip through Ireland in its most troubled time and didn't hear a shot fired; I walked through the Ghetto with several hundred lire in my pocket in the early morning hours--and nothing happened...
Such has been Raphael's fame that all his pictures have been taken away from little Urbino just as he was. Not one remains. Nor is there is a peddler-millionaire in Urbino with 5,250,000 lire to spend in bringing back even a small-size Raphael of questioned authenticity...
Between the ages of 25 and 35, and between 50 and 65, every bachelor must pay 25 lire ($1) annually to the state; and 35 lire ($1.50) annually between the ages of 35 and 50. In addition all bachelors who are already subject to the regular income tax will pay 5% more per annum...
Thus from some 1,700,000 bachelors there will be wrung annually 100,000,000 lire...