Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany. "It is necessary from now on to take into account the existence of the Rome-Berlin axis. Between the two regimes there is a lasting solidarity. You understand me when I say that it is a lasting solidarity sealed by blood." (A reminder that German and Italian troops had died in Spain...
...work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from the impresario of the troupe, Colonel Wassily de Basil, stood the beauteous prima ballerina assoluta of the Rome and Milan operas, Attilia Radice, and her journalist and balletomane husband, Paolo Fabbri...
...Montpellier, France toward the close of the 13th Century was born one Roch, son of the town's wealthy governor. Orphaned, Roch gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe...
...recognize fully his conquest of Ethiopia. Sullen antagonism flared into open hostility four days before the Coronation when II Duce, hoping that for once the pen might be mightier than the sword, issued orders and Italian newshawks in London, like a well-drilled Fascist Legion, route-marched for Rome and the entire Italian press clamped down a boycott on British news (TIME...
...Rome, meantime, British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, having sped back from a visit to his dentist in Vienna, called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at the Palazzo Chigi, remained closeted for more than an hour...