Word: romano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a devout Roman Catholic is a Rotarian. Last week many a Catholic Rotarian was troubled and disturbed by words in L'Osservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican...
...eyed bouncing babe of one is Romano Mussolini. Last week the eyes of Romans grew bigger even than Babe Romano's as he bounced before them in the arms of Benito Mussolini...
...Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman Catholics who know that His Holiness (once a famed mountain climber) dis approves of certain modern excesses in athletics, especially where women are concerned. The Papal stand was again emphasized, last week, when Osservatore Romano, famed spokesorgan of the Vatican, thundered at Rome : "Gymnastic and athletic competitions for girls offend the Christian sentiments and the customs of our Italian civilization and of our people, and no historical analogies and no appeal to the traditions of other countries can justify them. The Roman Catholic Church...
Another compliment to the man whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...
...insults are deadlier than to tell a male that he is not a man. Yet last week precisely this insult was hurled at Italian bachelors and childless husbands by Benito Mussolini, begettor of a daughter, Edda, and three sons: Bruno, Vittorio, Romano...