Word: signoralli
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Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...
...light of subsequent events, it is clear that the wicked widow thus flayed is Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...
...Signor Alberto Pirelli: "We are building a nice house, but we are not yet sure what its dimensions are to be and we don't know what furniture we are going to put into it." Against the fiscal defeatism of Sir Josiah Stamp, the studied pessimism of the Germans, and Signor Pirelli's attitude of uncertainty, the U.S. Delegates were understood to be strongly militating for a solution, with the well-nigh irresistible impetus of their moral and financial prestige...
...Signor Donnarumma looked reproaches at Signora Donnarumma. The young wife could guess her husband's thoughts, for she knew that he had boasted in the village, "I shall have a son!" He had even bet on it. Now he would be laughed at, and perhaps he would hate her for making the villagers laugh...
Strutting proudly in the village next day, Signor Donnarumma crowed: "What joy! I have a son. and one of the twins has died...