Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ) is tended by Franciscan monks but, by old tradition, has Mohammedan doorkeepers, who used calmly to lock in the meek monks every night. What dismayed Editor Morrison and other members of his cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine a tourist should be expected to believe in the continued, known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which...
...great artist ever lived so long as Tiziano Vecelli. Born high in the Alps, 70 miles from Venice, he lived to be 99, died enormously rich and honored, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, of the plague in 1576. Titian never starved in a garret. Sent to Venice to study painting by his father, apparently a man of some means, Titian formed an early partnership with Giorgione, soon won profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara...
Into bustling little Lourdes in the French Pyrenees last week moved a vast throng of pious folk including 60 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, silver-helmeted Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition...
Elwood M. Rabenold '37, Robert W. Raymond '37, George H. Reed '38, William D. Richmond 1G., Edward H. Riddle '37, Oliver E. Rodgers '36, Selden T. Rodgers '36, Howard E. Roman '36, Lawrence Ross '37, Robert S. Russell '35, Ernest Sachs, Jr. '38, George A. Savage 1S.A., Karl E. Schevill '37, Adolph B. Schneider 1M., Robert F. Sharp '37, William Shelmerdine '37, Stephen S. Stanton '38, Arthur W. Todd '35, Frederick B. Tolles...
...regional planning. The Committee's counsel called a list of the other 30%. They included the Geographic Distribution of Ancient Greek Dialects, an Isothermic Map of the Mediterranean Region, a Profile of the Excavations at Kish, Early Bronze Age Intercourse, a Genealogy of the Julian-Claudian Line, the Roman Coinage of the Alexandrian Mint. One stopped the counsel: "The Geographical Distribution of the Chief Type of Fibulae...