Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late in the week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...
Finance Minister Count Volpi entered the Chamber and crossed with quick nervous strides to the Ministerial Bench, where Premier Mussolini awaited him. The Premier shook his hand with vigor. The Deputies rose to their feet and cheered him. From the public galleries as many cives Romani as could squeeze in roared their approval of the Volpi-Churchill Italo-British debt settlement (TIME, Feb. 8, COMMONWEALTH...
Orphan Kato's career. After graduating from the Imperial Tokyo University, he became the personal secretary of the then Foreign Minister, Count Okuma, and gradually rose through numerous posts in the Finance and Foreign Ministries until he was appointed Minister and then Ambassador to Great Britain. It was he who signed with Sir Edward Grey the Anglo-Japanese compact which brought Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. During his career he served as Foreign Minister in three cabinets, and was often referred to as "the least sympathetic of Japanese statesmen toward the U. S. exclusion policy...
Puppy Love. Anne Nichols, who produced Abie's Irish Rose, has a new one. She did not write it, but from the looks of things she had a lot to do with the rewriting. The farce has all the old tricks you can think of and here and there a new one. It is so synthetic, so obviously manufactured for the easy laugh, that the testy old critics did not like it. Neither did they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl...
Whether or not this Burmese fragment was written in 1894 or dates to an earlier, simpler time, Wilde enthusiasts may decide for themselves. It is very much in the manner of his first fairy tales (The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince, etc.) which he wrote in 1888, and has not the suggestive undercurrent of his later fairy tales (House of Pomegranates), which appeared in 1892 with the explicit statement that they were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public...