Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent reports from Rome and the Ethiopian front indicate that the Italian campaign has bogged down completely. The heavy rains alone preclude, until next summer, the possibility of renewed aggression, unless it be from the Ethiopian side. Such a situation bodes no good for Mussolini...
Dynamic forces are at work. The recent rioting of Alpine troops is a straw in the wind. The regular army never made a secret of the fact that it did not relish its task. More quiet cursing and derogation of Mussolini is heard in the streets of Rome, Milan and Salerno. The troops in the field are spread out, discontented, badly supported by communications, and strategically exposed to serious defeats. Any spark from a number of sources may kindle the flame, and there are as many gusts of sentiment ready to nourish...
...half-year more of living on its nerves, with no prospect of aggressive action and much prospect of increased difficulties--such is the picture Italy has to contemplate. Even a few weeks hence we may see faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...
...Roman Question had turned out to be gold only on the surface. Thousands of gold wedding rings proved to have lead cores. The Fascist Press was highly incensed about the "solid gold" cup presented by the Lord Mayor of London seven years ago to the Governor of Rome. Brought to the Bank of Italy by Prince Ludovico Spada-Veralli-Potenziani, London's cup, in the words of Italy's analysts, proved to be "thinly plated with gold over silver, and not very good silver at that...
...bishop, a fine upstanding man, found Marietta's nubility troubling, he married her off to a young coffinmaker. She liked marriage and wanted children but got none; so she went back to the bishop for help. Then she ran away. A year later she turned up in Rome with a baby, was taken back by her forgiving husband...