Word: signoralli
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...Received notice from Rome that Señor Villigas, the Chilean Ambassador, had signed with Signor Mussolini a ten-year treaty of arbitration and amity. Significantly, this is the first treaty of this kind to be signed between Italy and an American nation,† though Signor Mussolini has woven a network of eleven sinister pacts linking Italy with England, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Yemen, Rumania and Albania...
Other "native" operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
Newsgatherers, who present only Il Duce, ruthless, blatant, were vexed by this unmasking of the quiet, singularly winning man who Signor Mussolini can become when he chooses...
Even non-Catholics were conscious that the new "Commandments" of Signor Marini transcend in blasphemy any utterance ever ordered to be pronounced in the schools of an avowedly Christian country. Not in all the Soviet Revolution has the like been heard in Russia...
Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...