Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Benito Mussolini, The Head of the State, The Leader of Fascismo, permitted a fair trial last week to onetime Socialist. Deputy Tito Zaniboni (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) who was arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death...
...upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...
...Signor Zaniboni," rapped the Court, "confine yourself to facts...
...Facts!" roared Signor Zani boni, "well, it is a fact that if the police, instead of arresting me at 8:30 had done so at 12.30 mY project would have been completed. . . . What more do you want...
Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...