Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Italo-Ethiopian War and the crisis over sanctions, Ambassador Grandi nursed Anglo-Italian relations through their most difficult period by alternately pounding the table and making conciliatory gestures. For this accomplishment the King made him a Count in 1937. At the meetings of the Non-intervention Committee Britons...
Like a good deal else in the Mussolini family life, there is no specific date for Edda's birth. She was said to be 19 at the time of her marriage; that would make her 28 or 29 now. It is virtually certain that Edda, whoever her mother was...
The reception she received opened Signorina Mussolini's eyes to herself. A plainly dressed, not very pretty young girl, she was nevertheless feted everywhere she went. In Travancore, she motored 200 miles through the jungle, escorted part way by elephantcade. She was entertained by the Maharaja of Gwalior, received...
A good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler'...
Off the train at Bled, Yugoslavia, last week hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer...