Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Benito Mussolini was hastening by an imperious decree last week a process as inevitable as sunrise or moonset. He knew that the lira had risen* and that therefore wages and prices must fall. He gave them a push, and something like a kick...
Cuts. The Cabinet of Signor Mussolini cut freight rates by reductions varying between 12% and 25%. Postal rates were cut slightly and telephone rates by as much as 20% on certain classes of service. The carriers affected were all state owned, so a pen scratch sufficed to slash prices...
Said Director General of Antiquities Signor Arduino Colasanti, with emotion, in a speech of welcome to the King...
Impelled by Signor Mussolini, the newspapers of Rome began, last week, a concerted campaign urging men to go hatless. "A bare head is more hygienic, more comfortable, and more ROMAN," declared Italian editors, recalling that the sturdy citizens of ancient Rome went bareheaded...
...woman edged through the crowd unnoticed, holding a small revolver between her cupped hands which she extended toward Il Duce, as though in adoring supplication. Taking careful, point-blank aim she pulled the trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...