Word: torlonia
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Returning alone and tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
...Duce carries his 56 years with desperate virility. Every morning before going to work he takes a fierce ride in the grounds of Villa Torlonia. Every afternoon between 2 and 3 he plays tennis with a professional who gets $50 a month...
Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
...King-Emperor took the Realmleader not to the Villa Torlonia (the palace in which Mussolini lives on a long rental lease), but to the House of Savoy's majestic Palazzo del Quirinale. * Here Der Führer was lodged in the suite of Crown Prince Umberto, who makes his home in Naples...
Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together...