Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bounce. A certain Marcello Nitrati, Italian tourist, had just scaled St. Peter's dome and jumped off. After bouncing once against the side of the dome he plunged to the roof (308 ft. below), became the first suicide in the newly constituted Papal State (TIME...
...priests, one Swiss, the other Italian, climbed last week to the topmost crag of the Matterhorn (climbed 40 years ago by the present Pope, then a priest) dragging after them a portable altar. Setting up the altar, they said mass, then unfurled for the first time outside the Papal State its flag: yellow and white, emblazoned with the Papal Tiara and Crossed Keys...
...that date, 60 years ago, Italian troops entered Papal Rome, surrounded the Vatican, ended the temporal power of the Pontiff. Lest Italians lose a holiday the Cabinet will decree that instead of Sept. 20 they shall hereafter celebrate Feb. 11. On that date, 19 months ago, Il Duce restored the temporal power of the Papacy by signing the Lateran Treaties which established the Papal State (TIME...
...Source of the Papal quotation: Prince Pignatelli, close friend of the Mussolini family, Hearst correspondent...
...retainers thought that he meant he would die before Castel Gandolfo could be repaired and babbled a dismal malinterpretation. Papal well-wishers, mindful of his indisposition this summer, again flooded him with inquisitive telegrams...