Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeMille picture without a battle scene would be as deficient as one without a bathtub. In Cleopatra, the bath in which Roman senators are shown scraping their elbows with strigils while plotting to kill Caesar is the biggest that has ever appeared in a DeMille picture, but the battle scene fails to set any record. This is because Antony's officers have deserted him and he has nothing left but a few re- painted chariots and a regiment or two of Egyptians. When these have been hacked, speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left...
...play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...
...when President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to spend a night at the White House. The last year of his life he spent editing an unsuccessful monthly called Uncle Remus's Magazine. Two weeks before he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1908, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church...
...some 26,000 bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...
Because Revolutionist Vargas is a sturdy Roman Catholic, his new constitution forbids divorce and makes church marriages civilly valid. Because Brazil's toughest political problem is States' rights, it creates a Senate to deal with them. For the rest the new constitution requires a majority of Brazilian nationals on the directorates of Brazilian public utilities, sharply limits immigration, favors land squatters and gives women the vote...