Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...alliance with Germany and Italy-with the nationalist revolutionary states and anti-bolshevism. Within 48 hours of my party's achieving victory, Rumania will have concluded an alliance with Berlin and Rome...
...Benito Mussolini prepared to christen a private plane at Rome's Lictor airport, his portly, placid wife Rachele Mussolini forbade him to break the champagne bottle on the propeller. Meekly II Duce touched bottle to craft, gave the champagne to attendants, who drank...
...little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary evidence, except Plutarch's incomplete account, was only frenzied, made-in-Rome propaganda. His "new" evidence was dug out of a "psychological" investigation. And Author Ludwig does succeed in presenting a Cleopatra who, as Queen of Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, deserves something better than her reputation as a sort of Oriental Mae West...
...took the artist two years to conceive, three years to paint. Stalwart, tranquil Peter Blume was 26 when he got a Guggenheim fellowship, took his young wife Ebie to Italy in 1932. They stayed eight months, lived in Florence for a while and then in Rome. Like other travelers in Italy that year they ran into a great deal of marching in celebration of the loth Anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome. They met smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps and capes and farm boys from up-country who resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism...