Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini was named as father of an illegitimate girl by a woman who complained to Milan newspapers. Next day a 30-year-old turned up who claimed the name, Benito Mussolini Jr., as his illegitimate right...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
Soon after the world's best-known painting was finished (1498), rumors got around that it had been painted not in tempera (egg-white base) but in oils. As the years passed, the huge fresco on the refectory wall of Milan's convent church, Santa Maria delle Grazie, mildewed, flaked and scaled. The experts, who kept trying to patch up the painting with secret preparations of glues and varnishes, did it almost as much damage as time and weather...
...false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
Arturo Toscanini, rejecting a "loving appeal" for his return to Milan and its La Scala Opera, broadcast an unminced reply: "I shall be happy to return among you as a citizen of a free Italy, but not as a subject of the degenerate king and the princes of the House of Savoy. ... All the vestiges of a past of ignominy and treachery must disappear...