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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the time of Edda's birth Mussolini's journalistic fortunes were changing. Having made a success in Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady of the Axis | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...first realistic descriptions of war, was one of the few who did not sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice the Anglophile of any of the others. He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy. What prompted him to walk across the Mexican border into mysterious oblivion, Author Walker does not venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

England last year gave the world the Lambeth Walk. This summer England expects every man and woman to do a dance to a corny waltz tune whose words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boomps, Yips | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...pitched ball and refused to take a walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...ecstatic "goatlike cry of joy." Whereupon they join in wild cavorting, break off to eat the lunch which she comes each day to prepare. At times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart, my pulse, my blood forever . . ." and so on until the smell of burning food calls a halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Mystery | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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