Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first...
...reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal of academicians to admit him as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1905 started a row resulting in the resignation of the Conservatoire's Director FranQois Theodore Dubois...
...send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said he: "I hope someone hits me over the head with a baton when I get to Rome, otherwise I'll continue to believe I'm dreaming...
...first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A good introduction, it traces the grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated...
...particularly powerful proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations. It is peculiar in this respect that its core is eternal (Rome) but its surround, some think, is ephemeral...