Word: giovinezza
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...Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain. He had thrown back his head sufficiently so that it pierced only the tip of his nostrils. Tiny stinging powder burns seared his cheek...
...Caesar. On the stage was Deputy de Vecchi urging complete "Fascistization" of the State: "Our efforts will not be relaxed," he said, "until ultimate victory. Our chief cannot be touched without passing over our dead bodies"-the finishing touch which caused an uproarious rendition of the inevitable Fascist hymn, Giovinezza...
...Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...
...Giovinezza, Giovinezza...
...sixth anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik revolution, was celebrated in Moscow by a great review, with tens of thousands of soldiers marching through Red Square. There were brass bands; hundreds of children, on trucks, sang the Internationale as small Italian boys now sing Giovinezza...