Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account of the recent award of scholarships given by the American Academy in Rome [TIME, May 27] is even more disappointing than your report of the same event in previous years. You seem to imply that to Mr. Eugene Savage belongs most of the credit for the splendid record of the Yale School of Fine Arts during the past years. Mr. Savage, I believe, would be the first person to deny this. As Leffmgwell Professor of Painting his influence reaches only a small section of the Yale Art School. He has nothing to do with the instruction in architecture...
Signor Mussolini, himself once an editor, now omnivorously directs the whole Italian Press, guiding its newsorgans from a central Rome bureau of which his sleek young son-in-law, Count Ciano, is chief...
...brunt of German wrath. By last week Il Duce had all Europe guessing whether he and Der Führer may not soon get together in a deal as to Austria's future, and in London the welkin rang with reverberations of anti-British editorials splashed out in Rome...
...school's books in 1932. But Dr. House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...
Benito Mussolini signed an aviator's license, embraced affectionately, pinned a pilot's gold wings on his handsome 17-year-old second son, Bruno, after proudly watching him qualify at Rome's Centocelle Field. Son Bruno thus became Italy's youngest licensed pilot...