Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slave nations, and the little Greek city-states, fighting for their own hearths and way of life, threw them into the sea. The Carthaginians hired mercenaries to defend their city, and when these hirelings revolted, Carthage was stabbed in the back and left to the mercy of the Romans. And Rome herself fell when the famed Roman legions were replaced by Germanic soldiers...
High up in the mountains of the Peloponnesus, Kalavryta (the name means "beautiful springs") was once razed in Roman times. The Romans used it as a watering place; so, later, did the Franks and Turks. In 1821 Archbishop Germanos, of Kalavryta's ancient monastery, began the Greek War of Independence (against the Turks) by raising the Cross at Kalavryta...
...Minutest. Wedgwood spent four years figuring out how to reproduce a Roman vase in the Duke of Portland's collection, and when Sir Joshua Reynolds pronounced his copy "a correct and faithful imitation both in the general effect and in the most minutest details of the parts," he felt that the time had been well spent...
Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...
...steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize him as the boy she began a happy relationship with on the day of liberation, when they were both decent human beings. 4) With Florence under shellfire and contested by partisans, a U.S. nurse and an Italian friend...