Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest modern army Africa has ever seen was about to show its might against an unfortified cow village, and back in Rome editors plated great victory headlines for their papers and crowds milled through the streets, eager to celebrate. But hours passed, and the news did not come...
...first troops to be sent to East Africa. With them they carried a strange piece of equipment, a fragment of a Roman column, brought all the way from Italy to be propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory of the dead of 1896. By this time Rome's desire to celebrate was slightly chilled. How many had been killed? Whose sons were gone? When would the first casualty lists be published? Angrily reproved II Duce's war office...
...Ambassador Dino Grandi read off an ex tempore verbal translation to Sir Samuel, after which Grandi departed with the secret sheets of Mussolini's message and may well have burned them. Whether or not Sir Samuel's end of the deal was handled with equal discretion in Rome by British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, who for 14 years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism of Sir Eric in converse with fellow diplomats at Rome last week was piquant to those who had known him only at Geneva. No man could say that "the deal...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...
Died, William A. Brady Jr., 35, son of the Manhattan theatrical producer and of Actress Grace George, half-brother of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Katharine Alexander, onetime partner of Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, with whom he staged The Road to Rome, The Command To Love, The Little Show; mysteriously in a borrowed bungalow which burned to the ground; near Colts Neck, N. J. Burned away except for the torso and one leg, the body was found in the smoking ruins near a melted half-pint flask, an automatic pistol with five cartridges in the magazine exploded, apparently...