Word: signor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco. Next autumn he will have a ten-week season. To prepare for it he opened an opera chorus school, the only one in the U. S. outside New York. He appointed Adolph Bolm who used to dance with the Diaghilev Ballet to start ballet classes. Said Signor Merola: "We are going to teach in our school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly 80,000 in the whole country. What is that in a population...
What is Benito Mussolini today? He has been a Socialist, atheist, terrorist- but may he not have changed? Last week, in an amazing contribution to the Enddopedia Italiana, Signor Mussolini tried to define the "Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism." succeeded in defining himself, exposing some of his innermost mental processes. Excerpts: Peace. "Above all," wrote 77 Duce, "Fascism does not believe in the possibility or advisability of perpetual peace. It therefore rejects pacifism. . . . Only war leads to the maximum tension of all human energies and sets the seal of nobility on people who have the virtue to face...
During the summer German Biographer Emil Ludwig spent several weeks in daily contact with II Duce, doubtless filled him full of Bismarck, drew from his host some strikingly cynical remarks. Thus Herr Ludwig says that Signor Mussolini said to him: "I do not think that a Duce No. 2 will come-and, if he does, Italy will not endure...
...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
Bomber Bovone explained to the tribunal last week that the "antiFascist concentration" in Paris had offered $50,000 for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, $5,000 for Crown Prince Umberto, lesser amounts for members of the Grand Fascist Council. He said he had no personal fondness for assassination, but found that the bombing business enabled him to support his mistress in luxurious style. Sbardellotto professed to be an idealist, announced that he was carrying on the work of the executed Michele Schirru. He said he had been chosen to kill the Premier by lots cast in Brussels. Had Signor Mussolini...