Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt pushed his radical New Deal program through a Congress directed by conservative Congressmen such as Robinson," Long continued, "and it passed only because of its temporary nature and the immediate pressure of the electorate. He had no real party behind him in Congress...
Practice will last until May 1 with one week out for the Easter vacation. In that space of time Dick hopes to get a real line on the Freshmen and to do a great deal of the necessary work towards next fall's success...
...real name is lost in antiquity, but he is known as St. Dismas. He is the patron saint of those condemned to death. Dismas was the "Good Thief" who was crucified on Calvary alongside Jesus, who said to him: "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." This poor saint's feast day (March 25) gains him no great devotion, for it coincides with the vastly more important feast of the Annunciation...
...years later Papa Haydn was dead and his head was off-stolen from his grave by ardent phrenologists. When the loss was discovered and the culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access...
Died. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, 70, widow of Nikolai Lenin (real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), "Grand Old Woman" of the Russian Revolution; in Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee...