Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Bucharest, Tourist Delbos sped to Belgrade to be entertained by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who had spent the earlier part of the week in Rome being feted by Dictator, King and Pope, and arranging to buy Italian war planes for Yugoslavia. While M. Delbos shook hands with Premier Stoyadinovich who is up to his neck in Fascism, the Roman press jeered "Delbos is wasting his time!" Under their late, assassinated King Alexander I (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), the Yugoslavian people were taught, however, to think of France as their friend and Italy as their enemy...
...Marquesa des Bueno, descendant of an illustrious 15th Century defender of Granada against the Moors. In 1919 a Papal legate in Paris performed the ceremony which united "Mimi" with an Englishman named Cecil Blunt, né Blumenthal, who straightway became a Papal Count by appointment of Benedict XV. In Rome the Pecci-Blunts own the ancient Palazzo Malatesta at the foot of the Capitoline. Their country house in Tuscany is the Villa Reala de Marlia, world-famed for its hedge carvings. In Paris they entertain with suitable splendor at the 18th-Century Hotel de Ligne...
...with knockout love drops. The kind of men she seduced made her sex appeal even more mysterious. Tall, black-eyed, bald Caesar "had known the whole gamut of indulgence," three or four faithless marriages. Yet Caesar, already married, defied hostile public opinion to keep Cleopatra openly in Rome with their illegitimate son during his last three years, introduced a law permitting him to marry several wives; and at 60, in spite of bad health, was prepared to go to war to silence anti-Cleopatra agitation...
...woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...