Word: superiore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning from bread to babes Benito Mussolini spent one whole day quietly with his family before roaring back to Rome. Most Mussolinesque of his children is eldest daughter Edda. She, reputedly born before the civil marriage of her father was solemnized by the Church, now maintains a superior patronizing air toward daughters of the Roman aristocracy who dare not snub her in return. Recently she toured India, was pampered by Maharajas; presented with two tigers. Like Papa Benito she swims, dives, pilots a racing motor, sometimes takes the joystick of an air- plane. When he is away she is said...
Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...
Count Giovanni Elia, Fascist, declared that even if the fleets of the U. S. and Great Britain should be made absolutely equal "there would still remain the vastly superior industrial power and unassailable geographical position of the United States...
...bench of the Gaston County (N. C.) Superior Court last week sat a tall, clean-cut, smooth-faced man of 41. He was Judge Morris Victor Barnhill, the State's youngest judge, sent into the county by Governor Oliver Max Gardner to try an extraordinary case. Before him were 13 men, three women. Laughing, smiling, they looked more like college boys and girls than the Communistic strike leaders they were. They were charged with murder and conspiracy...