Word: mussoliniland
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...sassy and sometimes impudent way of writing marked by double adjectives, alliteration, inverted sentences and frequent neologisms. Hadden was the chief inventor of TIMEstyle, and he peppered the young magazine with it. TIME called George Bernard Shaw "mocking, mordant, misanthropic," and Erich von Ludendorff "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." It coined "Mussoliniland" for Italy and called drugstores "omnivenderous." When Red Grange appeared on TIME's cover, he was described as an "eel-hipped runagade" and G. K. Chesterton became "a paradoxhund...
...German border was not reopened except to pedestrians. Exports stopped moving into Hitlerland from Mussoliniland, because the neutrality which B. Mussolini announced for himself was a status which Britain and France, preoccupied though they were with other business, watched with stern, forbidding eyes. The only good Indian used to be a dead Indian. The only safe Mussolini from now on is a Mussolini whose hand performs as his tongue has avowed...
...case of Italy, only 6,203 Italians arrived in the U. S., whereas 27,151 returned to Mussoliniland...
...auspices, Italy has been suspicous of the new order in Central Europe. Efforts have been made by the Little Ententists to bring Greece, Poland and Italy into the charmed circle, but Italian suspicion of the Yugo-Slavs and Italian nervousness at the tendencies of French foreign policy has held Mussoliniland aloof...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador, returned to the U. S. after a brief visit to Mussoliniland. Said...
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