Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duce deigned to chat often and familiarly with correspondents, to whom he usually accords scant courtesy. They, unmollified, reported unkindly that he seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
Imperial Welcome. With the tip of his nose brown with iodine but unbandaged, Signer Mussolini landed at Tripoli amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...
...march the Appian Way in triumph. The Norge soared majestically above it up to the Eternal City and set off to fly, in 24 hours, a distance that used to take Caesar's legions two months of forced marches. She headed out over the Mediterranean for Corsica's upper tip. Colonel Nobile christened her radio with a message to Premier Mussolini ? steaming to visit Italian possessions in Africa aboard the battleship Cavour ? that all was well...
...Valfreya. The 18 men who comprised his crew earned their high pay and seldom stayed with him long. He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night. Thus armed he stole upon sleeping members of his crew, inserted the tip of the gun in an ear, pressed the plunger. Two private secretaries left him after suffering this treatment. Mr. Brown crept upon a third secretary at night, clipped off his mustache without waking him, squirted...
...melody and maidens these are dependable: Cocoanuts, Pinafore, No, No, Nanette, Tip-Toes, Sunny, The Vagabond King, Artists and Models...