Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in Italy was somewhat obscured by a strict news censorship, but there was every reason to believe that the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteoti (allegedly by disciples of Premier Benito Mussolini ?TIME, June 23) had aroused the Italian people to a dangerous pitch and shaken the very foundation of Fascismo...
...efforts to find the body of the murdered Socialist allegedly failed. None of the prisoners gave any information on the point, but ex-Editor Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano admitted that he had given instructions for the kidnapping of Deputy Matteoti. One Amerigo Dumini, who kept his peace, was rumored to have carried out the murder...
...stated that Benito would answer the bombardment of his foes in a speech on the murder case to the Senators and in another to the Deputies. Critics professed to see grave danger to Mussolini's tenure of office unless he were able to exculpate Fascismo from the opprobrium of guilt which now surrounds...
...stage when an embrace is in order. I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!' " Elsewhere there is this wise remark, "You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will en-'danger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus...
...Bedroom Window. The main mystery in this mystery melodrama is whether the audience are supposed to take it seriously. It deals with the solution of a murder during which most of the cast act, at times, in the most exquisitely idiotic manner. Ethel Wales, for instance, portrays a mannish woman novelist, who smokes insidious cigarettes and solves the crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture...