Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise of the late Vicar General John Joseph Dunn of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York that he would leave her one-third of his estate...
...state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date I remember from my history courses is 800 A.D., the year Charlemagne was made Holy Roman Emperor. In 25 years nobody has ever even brought up the name Charlemagne, much less the year...
...church on the ground floor of a Manhattan apartment house one day last week three middle-aged bishops consecrated a 33-year-old who thereupon became the youngest bishop in the U. S. Two years ago the youngest was a 32-year-old Roman Catholic, Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney of Brooklyn (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Last week's youngest...
...name of Cleopatra shines out today as brightly as it did right after the battle of Actium; Antony has his place in the sun as her good friend; and as for Novresibus, well the name of Novresibus is just one more name that during the succeeding 100 years the Roman youngsters-excuse me, moppets-were obliged to memorize in the list of officeholders, in their history class at school...
...Committee cannot agree except with the concurrence of German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, both of whom are familiar with the tactics of that Ancient Roman, Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunetator ("The Delayer") who deployed Rome's legions with such persistent avoidance of battle that when at last he was ready to fight, the wearied Carthaginians were routed. In case the mild tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus (died 203 B. C.) do not avail in 1937, II Duce and Der Führer can always get tough...