Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that the demented woman, now 50, once said that she attempted to commit suicide "for the glory of God." Sitting in her cell at Rome, her face and neck scratched, her dress untidy, she declared: "Supernatural forces entrusted me with the lofty mission of attempting to kill Mussolini...
...Gentle Joke." A few hours after the "incident," Premier Mussolini drove unconcerned to a Cabinet meeting. To his Ministers, still desperately uneasy lest his wound should prove serious, he said with a smile...
...several bombs and hand grenades upon his desk, in case his political enemies should attack him. Once, while writing an editorial, he set fire to the fuse of one of these bombs by accidentally resting his cigaret upon it. An assistant noticed the smouldering fuse, screamed. Looking up, Editor Mussolini snuffed it out with his fingers, continued the writing of his editorial...
Triumph. Part of the "work" to which Premier Mussolini recalled his Ministers consisted of last minute preparations for a voyage across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli, upon which the Premier was scheduled to embark late in the week, accompanied by the new Fascist directorate (headed by Turati) and by numerous provincial secretaries of the Fascist party. True to his words, Mussolini set sail ? on the day following Miss Gibson's attack...
Imperial Welcome. With the tip of his nose brown with iodine but unbandaged, Signer Mussolini landed at Tripoli amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...