Word: signer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Originating from Italy, one of the poorest countries with the poorest banks. Signer Giannini has succeeded in financially dominating the United States, the world's richest country...
...must begin by taking his bearings. Therefore the first column and a half cabled by Mr. James was a bright, bedtimish story about Italia Bella, no longer famed lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
...would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...
...Hungarian Government's lame explanation was that the guns were con- signed to Poland. The Italian Government, bolder, sought to forestall possible investigation by the League of Nations, postulating through the Fascist press the "unalterable opposition'' of Signer Benito Mussolini to such procedure...
...these words there was an atom of meaning, they implied that Signer Mussolini is meeting, at last, with some success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...