Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
...Italian who has bathed at Ostia, favorite beach of Il Duce, will be able to speed in electric cars, which already run to Rome, clear under the Eternal City and on up to his suburban home in the Alban Hills...
...Benito Mussolini in Rome last week flashed a report from Addis Ababa. Italy's active Viceroy of Ethiopia, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, reported he had just made a swing around recently-conquered Southern Ethiopia with a guard of 50, received without incident the homage of thousands of lowland Ethiopians who traditionally hate the highlanders of whom Haile Selassie...
...Rome, Il Duce instantly gave orders for Surgeon-Professor Cesar Antonucci to take off from Rome with his assistant, Dr. Giovanni Barbera. Day later they alighted at Addis Ababa, amputated the shattered leg of Air General Liotta. By this time Viceroy Graziani had mobilized 30,000 troops on a war basis, issued a communique: "The outrage represents an episode of common delinquency." According to Addis newsfolk the Ethiopian grenade-throwers set up a shout of "Ras Desta is coming!" but in fact this onetime ras (chief) of Haile Selassie was hundreds of miles away making good his escape into British...
...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...