Word: damaso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damaso Court, near dusk, a bell clanged. Swiss Guards with flickering torches bustled through the corridors of the Vatican, looking for unauthorized intruders. "Extra Omnes!" cried a dozen masters of ceremonies-"Everybody out!" The heavy bronze door of San Damaso creaked shut. Six keys clicked in its locks, three on the inside turned by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, three on the outside by Prince-Marshal Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere. The papal flag was hauled down, the silken banner of the Chigi family hoisted in its stead. The conclave of 62 Princes of the Church, immured...
...force at his disposal to keep his enthusiastic friends from massacring all Whites held in Madrid jails. Announced by the Government without further explanation were the ''sudden deaths" of General Enrique Marzo of the Spanish infantry, millionaire Count de los Moriles and onetime Spanish Premier Damaso Berenguer...
...conversation adapted for the screen by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble still crackles. Constance Bennett's mannerisms and her loud voice, possibly a shade more metallic than she intends it to be, become her part. Violet Kemble-Cooper and Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso, son of a Spanish bullfighter), are the other most noticeable members of an expert cast, expertly directed by George Cukor...
...about to leave for the Vatican, leaving in its place a tiny topper that balanced precariously on his domelike forehead. At the Vatican the Swiss Guards were wrongly informed of the hour of his arrival. Parti-colored men at arms were still scurrying about the courtyard of San Damaso when the German automobile drew up. Foreign Minister Curtius, who is Protestant, paid a separate visit some hours later...
...since 1923. Suddenly last week King Alfonso appeared to realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain were hopelessly split among themselves and afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again...