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...great piazza before the Cathedral of Milan, black-shirted Fascists swarmed like a Titan ant horde, rejoicing militantly at the third anniversary of Fascismo's "bloodless" triumph. Round the motor car of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, Fascists crowded in a tight packed mass-the quintessence of joyous adoration. Their leader's face, pale from recent ill health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these...
...glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind the screaming Stork for necking on the Neckar. "I am a disciplined Fasrist," she cried with ambidextrous gestures of Latinate obedience. "Without the permission of my Duce. I refuse to move." Nor did she, Submission to parental authority triumphed supreme...
...with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...
...Rome, il duce Mussolini fumed...
Bulbous balloons. (P. 28, col. 2.) Il duce giggled...