Word: signoralli
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King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Mother Margherita, widow of the murdered King, attended mass near the tomb of King Umberto in the Pantheon. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, sent telegrams on behalf of the citizens to the King and Queen Mother, and issued a proclamation to the people, as a commemoration document, deploring the crime that ended King Umberto's life...
...took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola...
...following, Deputy Roberto Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascisti, told a cheering audience in Naples that he could not deplore the attack on Signor Amendola. "It is time," said he, "anti-Fascisti should know that this comedy cannot last longer." This "comedy" was attacking the Fascist Party...
Deputy Giovanni Conti and Signor Curseio Suckert pricked each other's faces with swords until blood blinded them and physicians stopped the duel. The first gentleman had objected to an article which the second gentleman had written. The fight followed a recent reaction against sword-duelling which was called a "silly survival of Romanticism...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...