Word: romanized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead silence the King delivered his speech. Best came last: "The upward climb of the Italian nation . . . will not be interrupted because the Italian people, as united and solid around the shield of my house and around the sign of the Roman Fasces as never before, deserves and will have an even greater destiny." Most significant came first: "The new duties of the State cannot but lead to transformations in the constitutional order, which the Italian people have already signified they will willingly accept...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...mountain lodge Organist Yon felt inspired to tell in music the story of the Irish Saint for whom his Cathedral was named. Back in New York he commissioned a libretto from Armando Romano, an editor of Il Progresso. Last week, thanks to Humbert Fugazy and Bart Manfredi, two devout Roman Catholic prizefight promoters who furnished the necessary backing, New York heard the world premiere of The Triumph of St. Patrick...
...Roman emperors liked the organ because it was the loudest wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were...
...Chicago's Cathedral of the Holy Name one day last week a choir chanted the Litany of Saints. In front of 2,300 plain people knelt 1,000 prelates including 14 archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, 72 bishops, 14 abbots and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. On the altar steps knelt George William Cardinal Mundelein. All the officiating churchmen were vested in red, the color of the day which was St. Mark's. Flat on his stomach before the altar steps, his face in his arms, his arms on a pillow...