Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Connoisseurs of aristocracy alone are fit to judge the magnitude, the enormity, of what Prince Franz has done. Before the War the anointed Hapsburg Emperors of Austria and Kings of Hungary (erstwhile Holy Roman Emperors) always prized and esteemed the House of Liechtenstein as one of the two or three in Europe of a lineage almost as pure and exalted as their own. Princesses of Liechtenstein had at least an even chance of espousing archdukes of Austria. Last week members of the few aristocratic families left in Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, wished that they could refuse to believe their eyes...
...read a memorandum boldly scrawled by Benito Mussolini last week, shortly before he achieved age 46. Next morning, spruce and whistling, he stepped from his Roman residence, slipped behind the wheel of a low-slung Alpha Romeo roadster. Venturesome, a correspondent asked why there would be no public birthday observance, received for his pains a blasting, withering glance...
From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps because grain growing on their sites had a distinguishably different tint from grain growing on less disturbed soil. In Mesopotamia the soil of filled-in Babylonian irrigation ditches showed a texture different from that of the surrounding soil...
...remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio de Manha complacently compared the goodwill voyages of "Miss Brazil" and Herbert Hoover...
...vast red hat, symbol of Cardinals, was bestowed on Mgr. Schuster three days later in public consistory. As the Pope bestowed the hat, he pronounced Mgr. Schuster "elevated to the splendor of the Roman purple." The new Cardinal kissed the papal slipper, hand, cheek. He was in turn embraced by the 25 assembled Cardinals, who touched his cheeks with theirs...