Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...
...Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...
...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...
...Signor Mussolini has not even yet announced the gifted men who will compose the new Italian Academy; but, last week, the offiicial press keynoted the Academy's program...
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...