Word: pio
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...Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch...
Pleasing to II Duce was the deed of one Signora Neriva Cavassa of Bologna who, last week, gave birth to triplet sons and named them "Pio," "Benito" and "Vittorio Emanuele," after Pope, Dictator, King...
...rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm deliberate way". . . . first in Italian and then in English...
...next morning war broke out between France and Germany. Napoleon III had to take his troops out of Italy. Pio Nono, who all this while had been protected by France, was defenseless. On the 20th of September Victor Emmanuel, one of the greedy Kings, seized Rome and took away the lands of Pio Nono...
Eight years later Pio Nono died. He had reigned longer than any other pope. He was the first pope to be declared infallible by dogma. But he died without papal lands...