Word: spadefuls
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...first place: a spade is a spade...
...Spade-bearded Dino Grandi hoped that this procedure would work out as follows: the conference would first decide that France and Italy should stand in a naval ratio of parity. Secondly, when the time came for each nation to announce its needs, France would have to lay her cards on the table before Italy, for the simple reason that the conference procedure is alphabetical and F comes before I. When his turn came, Signer Grandi, already assured of parity with France, already aware of her maximum demands, would simply repeat with a virtuous air Signor Benito Mussolini's old saying...
Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Fascist delegate to the London conference, was the sensation of Mayfair drawing rooms by wearing, with formal evening dress, white collar and tie, a black shirt...
...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...
...woke up next morning in Paris, where he conversed for a half hour with "Ramsay MacDonald's Yes-Man," British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, sped him on his way to Geneva. Next day he boarded an-other wagonlit, woke up at Geneva. Waiting there was Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded Foreign Minister and closest friend of Dictator Benito Mussolini...