Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked empire. One night tens of thousands of ardent black-shirted Fascists marched from their neighborhood clubs to Rome's famed Piazza, di Venezia. Shouting their Fascist slogans, singing their Party's songs, they faced the lighted windows of the massive Palazzo Venezia, where, as they all knew, the powerful Fascist Grand Council was meeting to decide high questions of State...
Conservative observers, however, looked for the election of an Italian archbishop, not too old, such as Milan's Cardinal Schuster, Venice's Patriarch-Cardinal Piazza, Turin's Cardinal Fossati-or even Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli, despite the fact that Secretaries of State have in recent years seldom been considered papabile...
After a picnic lunch in the woods, the intrepid dared to beard the god in his den at Titan's Piazza on Mount Holyoke. Titan, unfortunately, was out, but Professor Mather Welcomed the Harvard boys to this high cliff under the impending columns of rock...
Most Rev. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, a militant churchman who is considered one of many candidates to be the next Pope. He is Patriarch of Venice, in effect an archbishop but holding an ancient title (like the Patriarchs of Lisbon, the East and West Indies) which stands because no one ever bothered to abolish...
...spent an hour or so in Keats' room (which is next to Severn's). On the one side it overlooks the majestic staircase of the "Trinita Dei Monti" and on the other the Piazza and the Fountain. Immediately below is a charming outdoor flower nook owned by a jolly old Italian and you can call from Keat's window and he will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content...