Word: romanizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage Galeazzo was another of those golden lads who liked to hang around the Excelsior and Grand Hotels in Rome, where rich U. S. heiresses generally stayed. He had been a cub reporter and a society journalist who did bits of drama and literary criticism for an obscure Roman sheet. After that his father managed to get him minor posts in the consular and diplomatic service. Few people thought he displayed great ability except that languages came easy...
Back in Rome she took up with a flock of smart but unimportant young people outside the best cliques of Roman society. She was fond of dancing and nightclubbing. She played bridge, generally at ¼? a point. The Count and Countess went their separate ways more frequently. One of her more intimate friends was Dino Alfieri (Under Secretary for Press & Propaganda), a great lady's man who boasts that he personally selects all the stenographers in his office. When Count Ciano was appointed Foreign Minister, Alfieri got Ciano's old job as the Press & Propaganda Minister...
Soon Chang was making drawings of their pranks and slithering movements, studying feline anatomy with a keen and youthful eye. Chang's Roman Catholic mother, an informed amateur of her country's art, never sent him to school. Instead, his fresh talent was nourished by observing nature and studying the old Chinese masters. By the time he reached 16, Chang was also writing poems, verse so good that it attracted the attention of distinguished Chinese men of letters. This was an omen not to be taken lightly, for no Chinese artist may hope to succeed unless...
Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
...tall Thracian named Spartacus, 70 Roman gladiators ran off from their master one night in 73 B. C. Times were restless; a year later Spartacus had a guerrilla army of 100,000, armed with clubs, spears, the tridents of the gladiators' trade...