Word: rome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explaining the phenomenon does not make it any the less undesirable. The intellectual curiosity that led men of the Renaissance to restore to the world the literature of Greece and Rome is today turned to scientific rather than literary discoveries; economic and political changes have come so thick and fast during recent year that they have not yet lost the fascination of novelty for the public, but the existence of such a vast expanse out side the mental bounds of any civilization will remain a constant reproach to its leaders until it be included...
...When in Rome walk as the Romans...
Culturally the hant monde of Lima is on a par with the similar aristocracy of Madrid, Rome and Paris. The other side of the medal must show the appalling backwardness and almost total illiteracy of the masses, a huge majority of which are Indians. Probably the great, feudal families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
...position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction...
Before Alcibiades won a chariot race in Olympia, rich people had made it clear that equine amusements were the most suitable for the well-bred. Nero's horses ran at Rome and, last week, a coach was pulled around the arena, in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, by four horses which belonged to Mrs. Frederic Cameron Church, once Muriel Vanderbilt. Three other coaches also rolled around the ring; and the best was judged to be one entered by James Franceschini, a onetime day laborer, out of Toronto...