Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Egyptian gibe at Il Duce's recent casting of himself in the role of Protector of Islam was more than matched by mocking English comments last week. "The dirty English!" screamed 250,000 Fascists massed to greet the Dictator on his return to Rome. "If war comes we will swallow up England. The dirty English...
Louisiana State University's huge Jack Torrance made his world record shot-put of 57 ft. 1 in. in 1934 at Oslo. If he had made exactly the same throw at New York or Rome, the shot would have traveled one inch farther; if at Madras, two inches farther-because of differences in the force of gravity. Moreover, since the field at Oslo was not checked by surveying instruments, there may have been an undetected inch of deviation from absolute flatness. In that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether...
...People in Rome were astonished last year to learn of the flattering attentions which Mussolini gave to a Frenchwoman staying in Rome who was a former actress and then mixed in politics and finally became a journalist," related Aux Ecoutes...
...part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station and shot a man who had always treated her with deference and courtesy in her role as a newspaper woman...
...March 3, 1839 a Parisian peepshow known as a Diorama, in which panoramic tableaux were exhibited, burned down. In it gapers could view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret...