Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
France and the Holy Roman Empire (now, roughly, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, pieces of Italy) both were rich, more populous than England with its three million people. He played them off against each other so that they were often seeking England's aid. He launched a new church and designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...
Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casella: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Minuet Boccherini Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Overture to "The Roman Carnival" Berlioz "Don Juan," Tone Poem R. Strauss "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier First Hungarian Dance Brahms Intermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Marche Slave Tchalkovsky
...Roman Naturalist", Professor Allard, Emerson...
...Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...