Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of health, attended to routine business, looked in on a priests' retreat at St. John's Seminary. Philadelphia's austere Denis Cardinal Dougherty, 70, who lately bought a $215,000 house at Overbrook, was traveling quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York, had extraordinary priestly duties to perform. Clothed with vast and holy power, attended in proud dignity by a princely retinue, the Archbishop of New York set forth on an errand imposed upon him last month by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Symbolically dispatched from...
...apparently upstart tendencies of Catholicism in the U. S. However successful the "American brand" of Catholicism was, there remained some nervous concern in 1924 when Patrick Hayes arrived in Rome to receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than Boston's imperious O'Connell, Philadelphia's autocratic...
...mountains as green and cool as those around Geneva, 120,000 bronzed and singing troops of Fascist Italy are marching today along the road of empire to plant their Roman eagles before the Council of the League of Nations ends its deliberations...
...rolls, 15 kinds of layer cake, 13 kinds of loaf cake, cookies, candy, popcorn balls, potato chips, spiced apples, pickles, jellies, jams, conserves, canned fruit, sun preserved fruits; for the best pillow case, cross-stitched spread, French knot spread, Cluny centerpiece, six-piece doily set, crocheted infants' socks, cutwork, Roman embroidery, boy's suit made from cast-off garments, rompers, Afghan, artificial flowers, pieced quilt, hand-painted cake plates (professional and amateur), fruit group, picnic table. Money winnings were small (first prize: $2), but eminently satisfying to the victor was the distinction of being known as a right smart housewife...
...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...