Word: signoralli
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...editors feared that within a few minutes most of them might be out of jobs. They had heard rumors that Signor Mus- solini proposed to merge all Italian newspapers into a single, syndicated super-news organ, edited by the Dictator's brother, pudgy, tortoise-spectacled Arnaldo Mussolini, who carries on the Mussolini family newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia (The People of Italy) at Milan. As the tall clock in II Capo's antechamber ticked ominously, the nervous editors dropped their voices to whisper pitch...
...mouse-quiet grew the great room that all heard distinctly the click of the spring latch on Signor Mussolini's door as it was opened by his private secretary. Though the fellow smiled reassuringly, even obsequiously, many an editor had the feeling that he and his newspaper were being bowed into a trap if not onto a gallows. As they filed into the sanctum, each sheepishly saluted the lionesque Dictator, who stood at immobile salute behind his great carved desk...
...usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust...
Even enemies of Signor Mussolini will admit that the above is a smart defense of his much criticised technique of curbing the press. Even smarter and more cogent were his words as he launched into a critique of sensational journalistic methods...
...Signor Benito Mussolini became much perturbed lest Freemasons assassinate him, some years ago, and accordingly proceeded almost to stamp out the cult of Freemasonry in Italy...