Word: mussolini
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With such sultry passages did the onetime French gossip columnist, Magda Fontanges, reveal the story of her passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...
...first time since Italy declared war on the U.S. came a firsthand account last week of how recent months have affected Mussolini and the humble paesanos he exhorted to "live like lions." It came via Cairo. It tallied in most respects with a series of "Inside Italy" articles by Michael Chinigo, longtime I.N.S. correspondent in Rome, and with information smuggled out by secret societies. All accounts told of hunger in Italy, of disillusionment, of despair...
...Questura and Mussolini's Informatori Privati del Duce ruthlessly tracked down secret agents and saboteurs. But they were handicapped by a wartime shortage of castor oil and by the people's sullen resentment. Trains, particularly those carrying German troops, were wrecked more often than authorities admitted. The Germans were everywhere, openly bragging that Italy was under their full control. But German officers and their women were stoned in Sicily...
...English language or dress in Ireland; in Compiegne, France. He wore Irish kilts in the House of Lords, wrote and talked chiefly in Gaelic and French, believed the habitual use of English deformed the mouth. His sister, Violet, out of her head, shot at Benito Mussolini...
...picket line which about-faced Mrs. Roosevelt belonged to the A.F. of L. musician's union, of which James Caesar ("Mussolini") Petrillo (see p. 42) is boss. Because In Time to Come has two minutes of off-stage band music played on a phonograph, the musician's union demanded that four musicians be hired, to sit in the wings. Pay of the four do-nothing musicians would have cost Producer Otto L. Preminger $337.50 a week. Mr. Preminger tried to settle for one musician, at $112.50 a week, but the union would not agree...