Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomb of his parents at Florence. However, as soon as George II felt himself to be really King and had $200,000 in his pocket, he emphatically challenged General Kondylis' plans, proposed instead that he sail around Italy, land at the Yugoslav port of Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis had naturally assumed that...
...Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence est sans doute archevêque en Italic. Dans quel diocèse?" "Non parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae." "Non liqueris gallice? Ergo non es papabilis, siquidem papa debet gallice liqui." "Verum est, Eminentissime Domine. Non sum papabilis. Deo Gratias." The Patriarch of Venice, who spoke no French but in Latin thanked...
...killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed on, encountered desperate hard ships, crossed the Cordillera in an audacious move, reached the Incas, hurried back to report on the wonders they had seen. But by the time Cabot could reach Europe, Pizzaro had already penetrated Peru from the north, obtained Spanish...
Tomorrow they will sleep late and will not leave Peddie until noontime. From 2 o'clock until 5 they will be fulfilling an engagement at Princeton, but will be allowed to ease up after the game and will go en masse to New York to see the musical comedy "At Home Abroad...
...En Route. When the President goes junketing to Hyde Park or Warm Springs, three cars usually take care of his whole party. But last week's journey was more than a junket. It took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East...