Word: lire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which, together with a tall white crucifix and a telephone, was the only ornament on his desk. There was just time to reach Monsignor Domenico Tardini, State Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs, before Tardini...
Victor Emmanuel, in a last effort to save his line, decided to abdicate in favor of Umberto. Wearily, he penned his abdication, got the date wrong, corrected it, and paid a notary a 129-lire (15?) fee to register the document. Queen Elena cried. By this time, Italy's politicians professed not to care what he was doing or what his plans were; informed of the impending abdication, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said: "It's not even fourth or fifth on my list of matters of importance...
Truncheons & Cold Water. Act II opened some 48 hours later, at midnight, when Rome's first serious general strike since 1922 began. Key demands of the Communist-dominated Chamber of Labor: 10 billion lire ($16,500,000) for public works and Christmas gratuities to aid Rome's 70,000 unemployed. Actually, Government plans already called for almost 10½-billion lire for public works; the Reds professed not to believe this...
Last week in Rome, the cellos that Vittorio Abbati bent to were no longer imaginary. He had spent 200,000 lire (about $560) to hire a hall and the Rome Opera House Orchestra to play in it. The orchestra management, touched by Abbati's earnestness, even knocked down the price. Included in his program: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri, the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Said he: "I closed my eyes and there was my orchestra, the same one as at home. The music just flowed. Then I opened...
...dollar, you can see Flicka, Smoky, and Thunderhead at the Boston Garden this afternoon. For free, over at Franklin Park, where lire Varsity cross country team matches strides with Rhode Island State and B. U., you can see Bob Black, Manuel Caetano and half a dozen other R. I. S. Rams who have been known to run much faster than the above-listed nags...