Word: colosseums
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...sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone, industrious, charitable, but merry withal. Nothing could be more respectable than Gladstone's cadenced marriage-proposal in the moonlit Colosseum; nothing more indecorous than Dizzy's pursuit of newly widowed, wealthy Mary Anne. But Mary Anne met gossip with gossip: "Dizzy married me for my money, but if he had the chance again he would marry me for love"; and lavished on him the affection a straight-laced Christian age had grudged the fantastic...
Fascist masons toiled furiously, early in the week, to construct an imposing dais between the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum, with stones taken from the nearby Temple of Venus. As "the 2,680th? anniversary of Rome "dawned," the dais was spread with draperies of imperial red. Upon it were set gilded crowns and other trophies won in the wars of ancient Rome. Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud. Jove-like, he frowned upon the suffocating throngs. Awed, they were silent...
...relieved the priests of military duty; he has disbanded the Free Masons. He has made obligatory the teaching of the Catechism in primary schools. He has replaced at the Colosseum a cross taken away 15 years ago. But that is not much; it is very little...
...play, if you have not read it, is a satire on martyrdom. It is all about Christians being thrown to the lions of the Roman colosseum. It is probably one of the most impudent documents ever composed about Christianity. It is not for churchgoers without a sense of humor. Paid. Whether or not you should steal money which you know you can repay and which in your hands will do the world and yourself great benefit is the problem of this adventure. The answer is, of course...
...purely party organization. At Milan, Benito's home town, Black Shirts, as the Fascist Militia is known, concentrated in large numbers to swear fealty to their King. The most spectacular parade was, however, at Rome. In the vale of the Aventine and Palatine hills, between the Colosseum and the Appius Claudius road, thousands of Black Shirts assembled. On every side were thousands of Roman! whom the gorgeously clad carabinieri had the greatest difficulty in managing. Cheers upon cheers rent the air-then there was a lull, occasioned by deepening interest not unmixed with curiosity. Three men appeared upon...