Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandalized citizen? to me the other day, is its politicians. They are cynics, fakers, dope-merchants. ... If they don't lie, at least they prevaricate. . . . There's nothing to choose between them. Tory, Labor, Liberal. . . . Lead out all the politicians and shoot them, and the country and the Empire might have a chance...
Perceiving that the Regent (now Emperor) of Abyssinia might yield to Royalty what he would not to statesmen, Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This...
...came loving the young Prince Avito and kindness could not make her a faithful wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight in his arms, forgetting Manfredo who might have won her with his charity had he not ridden off again to war. He crept up on her, seized her with his bony hands, hurt her till she should tell her lover's name and strangled her when she dared defy. But the lover, too, must die and Flora's lips...
Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...
Olszewska, speeding by train toward Chicago, took no notice. Superb singing, she hoped, might eradicate the stain. A good appearance, too, would help and remembering that the first rehearsal was early next day, that her one pair of shoes was dusty, she slipped them outside the compartment door. In the morning there were no shoes, polished or unpolished. Knowing no English, wanting no more scenes, Olszewska stole from the train in her red bedroom slippers, drove at once to the shopping district, scuffed up and down Michigan Avenue till she could find shoes worthy of a prima donna's first...