Word: signore
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...though to add comic relief, this picaresque collection of individuals is rounded off with the Union Party candidate, Carleton Brett, and the hero of Little Italy, Signor Santosuosso. Although they may well be better suited for office than some of their opponents, the chance of their receiving more than 10,000 votes between them is slight...
...Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would be open to those conversations which formed the subject of the recent correspondence between Signor Mussolini and myself...
...ring did not turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman...
...British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion as to swish Lord Plymouth, Signor Grandi left off to shout: "The Spanish Government's charges are fantastic and devoid of any foundation whatsoever! I refuse to transmit them to Rome." Chimed Prince von Bismarck, "I refuse to transmit them to Berlin!" At this exciting moment of Conference deadlock, correspondents concluded that Europe was splitting wide...
...handsome limousine and laying wreaths on Swiss Fascist was made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreath on Swiss monuments. He even fooled the Permanent Italian League of Nations Delegate, Signor Bova-Scoppa, who used to be stationed in Addis Ababa. Last week Delegate Bova-Scoppa responded courteously when accosted on the street by the bogus "Emperor...