Word: rocco
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Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...
Decrees. Minister of Justice Rocco next arose to present the Defense Decrees. From these had been stricken the celebrated clause defying international law by providing that the Italian courts should sentence to imprisonment foreigners who spoke or wrote ill of Italy even in their own countries. As introduced last week this clause provided punishment for foreigners committing such crime only when they are in Italy...
Mussolini had to cancel the engagement owing to pressing affairs of state. Among others present: Senator Tomaso Tittoni, President of the Senate; Admiral Thaon de Reval, Minister of Marine; Signer Rocco, Minister of Justice; Senator Schanzer, ex-Foreign Minister; Senator Contarini, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry; Signer de Stefani, Minister of Finance; Commendatore Pace, Director General of the Treasury and one of Italy's leading bankers; U. S. Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher...
...being unfinished, so that the whole Venetian method of painting from the dark ground tone up to the last glaze is clearly revealed. There is probably no other painting by Tintoretto in this country, which so completely suggests the quality of his work in the Ducal Palace and San Rocco, in Venice...