Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubtless one of the rarest forms of twentieth century amusement is that of attending a Roman comedy, presented in the ancient style, with Roman scenery and costumes, and with the lines all in Latin. And indeed proportional to the rarity is the greatness of the opportunity for witnessing the "Menaechmi", the comedy of Plautus, produced by the Harvard Classical Club...
...given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...Roman Law", Mr. Hammond, Sever...
Whistling blithely one Giuseppe Carmagnola, Roman garbage collector, drove his cart round the corner of the Church of San Marco Maggiore last week, descended to empty a garbage can. To his horror he saw three fragments of the Sacred Host negligently tossed among the garbage...
...separation law of 1905. His attitude was otherwise in affairs of less consequence-into the Vatican he introduced telephones, elevators, electric lights, typewriters. When Theodore Roosevelt visited Rome in 1910 the College of Cardinals refused to permit an audience with the Pope unless he promised not to address Roman Methodists. Merry del Val protested by tendering his resignation, but was asked to withdraw it by the Pope. When Benedict XV died, Merry del Val was strongly mentioned as a possible successor. He liked to play golf, to watch baseball games between U. S. students in Rome. Last summer he visited...