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Exact dynamic utterance is expected from the lips of Signor Mussolini. His capacity for being clear amounts to genius. He likes to be clear. Yet he can use weasel words.* The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini-on his own confession. Last week II Duce explained to U. S. newsgatherers why he has suppressed the liberty of Italian newsorgans. Weasel words fell from his lips, not sullenly, not haltingly, but with bland, urbane facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Weasel | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Cabinet's "Little Coalition" was of the Centre, shrewdly designed to weave and weasel between the Socialist Left and the Nationalist Right. The Nationalists have been supporting Herr Gessler because they thought he was preparing in secret an army of revenge; while the Socialists have credited him with building up a force to bulwark the Republic against Nationalist attempts to restore the Monarchy. Since Herr Gessler's activities have been carried on in secret these two antithetical impressions could exist. The facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 1' Christmas Crisis'' | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Busch] is positively fascinating. The Superman Himself is in our midst! I'll bet he wouldn't even be afraid of a lion in the zoo, or could stand up real bravely and throw stones at a trapped weasel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...saves the weasel, While pop goes the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth: The Week in Parliament Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Although most of the furriers' dealings, judged by bulk, seem to have been in cat fur, the pelts of other animals also came upon the block, including black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, ocelot, wolf, Canadian baum marten, Japanese marten, cross fox, fisher, flying squirrel, Chinese weasel, pahmi and Gold Coast monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fur Trade | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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