Word: signoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pedestrians should have "kept to the left," by command of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...
Father Gianfranchesci, chaplain of the expedition, telling his beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...
Friends of the Signora Rachele Mussolini were glad to believe, last week, a pleasant story illustrative of her undoubted goodness of heart. It is told that, prior to the birth of the bambino Romano Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...