Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though not noisily sturdy like Mussolini, Hitler is a healthy man, who in ten years has changed physically less than most men between 42 and 52, and who has suffered no greater hurts than a finger broken in an automobile accident and a polyp removed from his larynx. The wig-like wad of hair which hangs across his forehead has no grey in it; nor has his curt mustache...
...midnight the action was over, the northern Italian squadron had never joined battle. Later eight reconnaissance planes flew out over the scene and saw hundreds of Italians on life rafts. British units came back and picked up over 900 men-and found two ways to rub into Benito Mussolini's hide his Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged in the task...
With these two key towns taken, the remnants of Benito Mussolini's Imperial Forces were completely hemmed in. Cut off from supply by sea, and also from escape by sea, they were in a virtually hopeless position. The British anticipated that they would make their next stand at the Awash River, 100 miles east of Addis Ababa...
Since then Woolf has done more than 300 such interviews. Mussolini, who grieved to him that dictatorship interfered with violin practice, put on a full-dress show to illustrate how he terrified his aides, and winked broadly at Woolf as the last one left. Said Coolidge-a Woolf favorite-"I am afraid I am hard to draw. I think I would be a much better model if I raised whiskers like one of the Smith Brothers...
...give the U. S. businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair introduces vignettes of Steffens, Mussolini, Litvinoff, and a sweet-tempered scorching of Harding's Roman Ambassador, Richard Washburn Child...