Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
Head of the Roman Catholic Church during the 18-day interregnum is the Cardinal Camerlengo. who sits during the conclave under a baldachin with the head Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest and Cardinal Deacon, the four being reverenced with a genuflection as if they were one Pope. Entrusted with what remained of the old office of Minister of the Interior & Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November...
...seat with what grace he could muster. No fool, he soon saw his chance to bring Rome back to a state of grace in which she would once more be ready for Republican rule. He set himself to the task with pertinacious common sense, worked long hours to bring Roman order out of imperial chaos...
...made them mortal enemies. With the best will in the world Claudius made mistakes, and an emperor's mistakes were hard to correct. But he kept hard at it, turned many a laugh on his critics by his homely shrewdness, gradually built up a solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last person in Rome to find out the truth about her: that she was a nymphomaniacal...
...groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against him and restore the Republic. His part played, when he knew that his wife was planning to have him killed it was hardly a surprise, almost a relief...