Word: emmanuele
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...turn the army, at least, into a Prussian facsimile, Mussolini introduced the "passo Romano," a copy of the goose-step. When old soldiers and short-legged King Victor Emmanuel complained, the Duce's comment was: "People say the goose-step is Prussian. Nonsense. The goose is a Roman animal. ... It is not my fault if the King is half-size. Naturally he won't be able to do the parade step without making himself ridiculous. He will hate it for the same reason that he has always hated horses-he has to use a ladder to climb...
Catholicism was the state religion under the kings, but few in the royal house were steady communicants. Italians recall that the late Queen Elena enjoyed telling ribald stories about priests, and some even insist that Victor Emmanuel III, on one of the infrequent occasions when he attended Mass, got mixed up at the holy water font and seemed to think he must wash his hands there. To be a Communist is, by decree of the Vatican, a mortal sin, but in some Italian towns the best place to find the leading Communists together is at Sunday Mass. And Catholics...
...McCagg '52, stroke of the Crimson varsity crew for the last three years, will soon row on the Cambridge University crew which once beat him. McCagg is studying at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a special fellowship...
...Paulo, of Brazil and probably of all Latin America is Count Francisco Matarazzo Jr., 52. The commercial empire founded by his Italian-born father was already the biggest in Brazil when he inherited it 15 years ago. Since then the count (Italy's Victor Emmanuel bestowed the title in 1917 for charities in Italy) has tripled the empire's possessions. His firm, Industrias Reunidas F. Matarazzo (I.R.F.M.), employs more than 30,000 workers in 367 plants (textiles, foodstuffs, 80-odd other miscellaneous products...
...program are Welsh, Irish, and German carola and a group of English carola arranged by Voughan Williams. The chorus will also sing a special arrangement of Christmas Day to Coming" by Ruth Abbott. The congragation will be invited to join with the choras in singing the hymns "Voui Emmanuel" and "Adoste Fidelea...