Word: quadrumvir
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...famed Oxford poetical quadrum virate of Spender, Auden, Lewis & MacNeice. For more than a decade these prestige-puffed young Lefties have been writing about their life and times with the authority of youth and political desperation. Most of them have had a high old time at it. But the quadrumvir who seems to have enjoyed himself least and to have done his work most painstakingly is Poet Spender...
...Quadrumvir jolted last week up to the Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight...
...Italian Field Commander: General Emilio de Bono, an original Fascist Quadrumvir of the March on Rome, was relieved as Minister of Colonies by II Duce last month and sent to Africa when Statesman Mussolini determined to postulate Abyssinian aggression...
Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was ordered, should be given to charities in Calabria, home of Quadrumvir Bianchi...
...Foreign Affairs, War, Marine, Aviation, Colonies, Public Works, Corporation. *The fourth Quadrumvir is Count de Vecchi. He got no Cabinet post. Instead, some time ago, he received the imposing honor of appointment as the Kingdom of Italy's first Ambassador to the new Vatican City...
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