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- The men saluted him, and the Bird, lost in a fantasy, stood on his roost in an absurdly exaggerated troop-reviewing pose that reminded Tom Wade of Mussolini.† (source)
- He was less approving of Mussolini, who was a dabbler and a dilettante.† (source)
- Mussolini's?† (source)
- Mussolini has resigned and the King of Italy has taken over the government.† (source)
- He gets the Irish Press early and tells me about the world, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco.† (source)
- His father's historic pledge, after Mussolini's forces invaded in 1939, to exercise the rights of sovereignty in accordance with the political and economic interests of neighboring France in exchange for military and naval protection in the event of war might have tied the hands of a lesser politician, but Mia's father has managed to work around that agreement.† (source)
- Mussolini?† (source)
- I was eager to know more about the armed struggle of the people of Ethiopia against Mussolini, and of the guerrilla armies of Kenya, Algeria, and the Cameroons.† (source)
- He's played Mussolini, Napoleon, Pontius Pilate, and Al Capone.† (source)
- During the war, the Adventures of Superman program had portrayed its hero fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito.† (source)
- But (9) Mussolini only wore a mustache sometimes, and (10) lots of good scientists had mustaches, like the Italian Ruggero Oddi, who (11) discovered (and named for himself) the intestinal tract's sphincter of Oddi, which is just one of several lesser-known sphincters like (12) the pupillan sphincter.† (source)
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- He stood in Mussolini park while the dog went scratching at patches of dirt.† (source)
- There was Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, for example, and they were all out to kill him.† (source)
- From the kitchen Ghosh heard the violent clang of Almaz extracting water from Mussolini.† (source)
- Hitler and Mussolini.† (source)
- I'm beginning to understand Mussolini's rise to power.† (source)
- He looked like Mussolini.† (source)
- An Italian accent in any TV show started him in about the two Mussolini soldiers — he didn't call them Italian, for, he said, true Italians didn't follow or fight for that maniac — he'd killed, or helped kill.† (source)
- You want me to point out that the glory of the Third Reich was a highway system unsurpassed in the world and that Mussolini made the trains run on time?† (source)
- "This is Benito Mussolini," the voice said.† (source)
- He actually had Miep bring him a book, an anti-Mussolini tirade, which has been banned.† (source)
- Even Mussolini didn't find them seditious, despite my admiration for Croce.† (source)
- When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge.† (source)
- Almaz grumbled about having to split wood, then stoke the fire in Mussolini—all for what?† (source)
- I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top, and I am an anti-fascist now that he has been deposed.† (source)
- He stopped in Mussolini park and spent a few minutes talking with the old men.† (source)
- I knew about Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.† (source)
- Herb was standing in the hallway roaring, "Mussolini!† (source)
- Lately it had been more and more aboutHitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Stalin.† (source)
- "Mussolini," he said to himself, shaking his head as if it had been a great joke after all.† (source)
- A man on the dole must be ready in case another man on the dole brings up Hitler or Mussolini or the terrible state of the Chinese millions.† (source)
- Newspapers are always crowded with strange maps and names of towns, and every few months the earth seems to lurch from its path when you see something in the newspapers, such as the time Mussolini, who had almost seemed one of the eternal leaders, is photographed hanging upside down on a meathook.† (source)
- I suppose I ought to have seen Mussolini's Fascist troops in their black uniforms, marching around and roughing people up — were they doing that yet?† (source)
- English agents are recruiting Irishmen to work in their munitions factories, the pay is good, there are no jobs in Ireland, and if the wife turns her back to you there's no shortage of women in England where the able men are off fighting Hitler and Mussolini and you can do anything you like as long as you remember you're Irish and lower class and don't try to rise above your station.† (source)
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ridelle have returned from a winter sojourn in Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Reeves have motored back from their Florida hideaway in Palm Beach, and Mr. and Mrs. T. Perry Grange are back from their cruise amongst the sunny Caribbean isles, while Mrs. R. Westerfield and her daughter Daphne have set out for a visit to France, and to Italy as well, "Mussolini permitting," while Mr. and Mrs. W. McClelland are off to fabled Greece.† (source)
- He held his chin up Mussolini-style, and the corners of his mouth turned up in a smothered smile, as if he knew something no one else did.† (source)
- Pietro had come back from Mussolini's African campaign in one piece, but after shelling Ethiopian civilians with mustard gas, his mind was never the same.† (source)
- In 1933, with Hitler ascendant in Germany, Will Rogers was the first to draw a line between the new Klan and the new threat in Europe: "Papers all state Hitler is trying to copy Mussolini," he wrote.† (source)
- In 1938, near the end of a decade of monumental turmoil, the year's number-one newsmaker was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hitler, or Mussolini.† (source)
- At year's end, when the number of newspaper column inches devoted to public figures was tallied up, it wasannounced that the little horse had drawn more newspaper coverage in 1938 than Roosevelt, who was second, Hitler (third), Mussolini (fourth), or any other newsmaker.† (source)
- 'I hope your mother feels better,' he said, in a tone that proved that even someone who looked like Mussolini could be ingratiating.† (source)
- Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood—read the speeches of Mussolini—at least we've known the thing together.† (source)
- The Italians under Mussolini invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea in 1935, with the world powers unwilling to intercede.† (source)
- When war broke out, Nately's family decided that he would enlist in the armed forces, since he was too young to be placed in the diplomatic service, and since his father had it on excellent authority that Russia was going to collapse in a matter of weeks or months and that Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Gandhi, Franco, Peron and the Emperor of Japan would then all sign a peace treaty and live together happily ever after.† (source)
- The Italians never forgot their humiliation, and so on the next try, some forty years later, Mussolini took no chances; his motto was Qualsiasi mezzo!† (source)
- Then Albert crossed the street to Mussolini park, as the kids called it, where a few old men still sat on benches with their folded copies of II Progresso, the fresh-air inspectors, retired, indifferent or otherwise idle, and they smoked and talked and blew their noses in the street, leaning over the curbstone with thumb and index finger clamped to old shnozzola, discharging the stringy stuff.† (source)
- When Mussolini threw his lot in with Hitler, his fate was sealed, and by 1941, Colonel Wingate's Gideon Force had defeated the Italians and liberated Ethiopia.† (source)
- Even now Hema felt a bit like a David Livingstone or an Evelyn Waugh exploring this ancient civilization, this stronghold of Christianity which, until Mussolini's invasion in '35, was the only African nation never to be colonized.† (source)
- Waugh, in his dispatches to the London Times and in his book, referred to His Majesty Haile Selassie the First as "Highly Salacious," seeing cowardice in the Emperor's leaving the country in the face of Mussolini's advance.† (source)
- Despite their black uniforms, white helmets, and gloves, the riders reminded me of the wide-eyed, monkey-maned warriors who came out of the hills on horseback on the anniversary of Mussolini's fall, looking mean and hungry to kill again.† (source)
- Hema's father was the Emperor's biggest fan because just before World War II, as Mussolini stood ready to invade, Emperor Haile Selassie warned the world of the price of standing by and allowing Italy to invade a sovereign country like Ethiopia; such inaction, he said, would fuel the territorial ambitions of not just Italy but Germany.† (source)
- His politics of course were deplorable, situating him I should say about 10 miles to the right of Mussolini, but withal he was what we who originated in the country have always termed a "good ole boy" and I shall miss intensely his hulking, generous albeit bigoted presence as we drove to work.† (source)
- I thought of the world in terms of bad guys and good guys, and I knew Hitler and Mussolini were bad guys , though I didn't know why.† (source)
- At the movies one afternoon in 1938, my buddy John Heideman and I watched the usual newsreels of nastiness in Europe—Hitler taking the mass salute at Munich, Mussolini strutting like a rooster.† (source)
- He was belting up his trousers for an assault on the landlord, whom he suspected of being the prankster since the landlord wasLithuanian and "Mussolini" had spoken in a Lithuanian accent.† (source)
- Though Hitler and Mussolini were bad guys, they were also funny comic-opera figures, not only because they looked funny—Hitler with his silly mustache, Mussolini with his strut and bulbous jaw—but also because they acted as if they thought they could whip America.† (source)
- Mussolini, my foot!† (source)
- Goethe honoured them; Mussolini despises them.† (source)
- And so we find Mussolini announcing a "new Imperial style."† (source)
- I have indicated what Napoleon once thought of you and what Mussolini thinks now.† (source)
- There is one other allusion which I should like to make before I end my speech, and that is to record my satisfaction of His Majesty's Government, that throughout these last days of crisis Signor Mussolini also has been doing his best to reach a solution.† (source)
- He liked to hear of how Japan was conquering China" of how Hitler was running the Jews to the ground" of how Mussolini was invading Spain.† (source)
- I believe Mussolini was not kidding about blasting pieces out of his Alps and Apennines to let the cold foggy currents of Germany over the peninsula and make the Perugini and the Romans into fighters.† (source)
- If they seriously intend it, I shall only say that we shall be delighted to offer Signor Mussolini a free and safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar in order that he may play the part to which he aspires.† (source)
- That same Mussolini who was slung up dead by the legs with shirt tails drooped off his naked belly, and the flies, on whom he had also declared war, walked on his empty face relaxed of its wide-jawed grimace, upside down.† (source)
- As for Mussolini -- his case is a perfect example of the disponsibilité of a realist in these matters.† (source)
- That Mussolini was late in coming to this only illustrates again the relative hesitance with which Italian Fascism has drawn the necessary implications of its role.† (source)
- That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.† (source)
- At any rate Mussolini seems to have realized lately that it would be more useful to him to please the cultural tastes of the Italian masses than those of their masters.† (source)
- Nevertheless, if the masses were conceivably to ask for avant-garde art and literature, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin would not hesitate long in attempting to satisfy such a demand.† (source)
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