Word: rome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, Ga., from Rome, Italy, arrived last week a bronze she-wolf, suckling two bronze infants. A gift from Italy's Benito Mussolini, it was a reproduction of the ancient Romulus & Remus group, a reminder to Georgian Romans of their etymological ancestry...
...Rome, Ga., is a textile mill. Its cornerstone, another Mussolini gift, was sent last year from the Coliseum's crumbling walls. The American Chatillon Rayon Co. was started on Italian capital. Therein lay the cause for the Mussolini corner stone, the Mussolini she-wolf, which will be formally presented by an Italian mill executive. In the U. S. there are 13 other Romes. No Italian mills have they, hence no she-wolves...
...Adriatic off smart Lido Beach lapped up with unconcern, last week, a profound secret. Locked in the brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods...
...Rome Start. It was foggy last week at Old Orchard, Me., when Roger Q. Williams and his navigator, Lewis A. Yancey, took off for Rome in the Bellanca monoplane Pathfinder, their third start in six weeks. Heavily loaded (450 gal. of fuel), the plane barely missed an amusement pier, reached an altitude of 500 feet, soon disappeared. Townsfolk, watching the takeoff, noticed strange bell-shaped "trousers" over the Pathfinder's wheels. A mechanic explained: streamline aluminum cowling, sharp at the front, breaks the wind...
...Vatican last week announced July 15 as the date for the next long-expected secret consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. The only elevation known in advance was that of Mgr. Idlefonso Schuster, abbot of the Basilica of St. Paul's, Rome, a German-Swiss who will be made Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, a position once held by Pius...