Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preliminaries. Sir Austen Chamberlain, recently knighted British Foreign Secretary, headed the table, with Premier Baldwin on his right, and on his left Sir Cecil Hurst, famed British jurist, whose duty it was to officially certify the credentials of the plenipotentiaries: M. Briand, Premier and Foreign Minister of France; Signor Scialoja, head of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations; MM. Vandervelde, Benes and Skrzynski, respectively Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland; Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann of the German Reich...
...Signor Scialoja: "Day dreaming . . . had to be reminded of his turn to speak . . . voluble...
...into script." Mr. Baldwin signed "easily and casually." Sir Austen, however, created practically a sensation by "taking off the monocle, without which he is never seen . . . adjusting a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles and signing with a golden quill-pen presented to him by the British delegation to Locarno." Signor Scialoja signed with "an ordinary quill...
...many years the inflammatory deputies of Latin electorates have indulged at pleasure in conduct as tempestuously indecorous as the antics of a bad boy of six just deprived of a new toy. Only a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30) Fascist deputies, shrieking like wild Indians, dragged a Communist, Signor Maffi, from the Chamber by the hair of his beard. To that arch-stickler for authority, Premier Benito Mussolini, such doings have long seemed intolerable. Last week the cables carried news of a "reform" so ingenious that its high-handedness was passed over in a gale of appreciative laughter...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...