Word: signore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grandi v. Tardieu. So young is Signor Dino Grandi, 35, that he has grown a beard like an Egyptian mummy's to achieve dignity as Italian Foreign Minister. Last week the beard waggled angrily. Against the will of France, Italy sought to impose on the conference this procedure: agreement should first be reached on the ratios of naval strength in which the powers would stand; secondly, each power should announce its total tonnage needs...
...diplomatic corps at Sofia the bet was puzzling. Signor Piacentini should know best of anyone whether his Government was willing and able to make the match. If he believed the wedding would go through within a year, did he not know it would? Was not the Greek Minister rashly wagering against a sure thing...
Edoardo Talamo, Roman engineer, had gotten some model tenements built. Families living in them were better housed than most of the city's poor families, but during the day, while the adults were at work, urchins reveled in the courtyards, ran riot in the long halls. Signor Talamo set aside playrooms for the children, urged Dottoressa Montessori to take them in hand. Thus was founded the first Casa del Bambini. Such establishments, subsequently organized in the U. S. and England, came to be known as "Children's Houses...
...king's left sat the British delegates, and beyond them, past the turn of the table, could be seen Signor Benito Mussolini's closest friend, spade-bearded Foreign Minister Dino Grandi...
While priestly lips formed the Latin syllables of a majestic chant, a small wad of chewing gum issued from the lips of Signor de Palois became imperceptibly affixed to the tip of his whalebone...