Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even pinch-dollar voyagers who count the cost of a first class passage must admit that last week the S. S. Majestic gave surplus value for her $265 minimum first class fare. The bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...
...devoted Son of the Church, Count Dalla Torre conducts L'Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
Thus, Editor Count Dalla Torre is both a loyal Son of the Church and a businessman of the world. As such he signed his authoritative initials, last week, to a leading article in L'Osservatore Romano which purported to explode the theory of a quarrel between Pope and Duce as follows...
...backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last week, that no quarrel had ever existed. The task of tidying up and if possible effacing the whole incident fell to a remarkable man: Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, editor of the news organ which speaks for the Vatican, L'Osservatore Romano (The Roman Observer...
...Count Dalla Torre is massive, stocky, weighs perhaps 200 Ibs. and stands half a head taller than most Italians. His complexion is very fair and his hair almost blond. Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan. Even enemies find him affable, but few except his friends realize his extraordinary and sensitive keenness of mind...