Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife...
...hand for the most orderly election in exuberant Free State history was foot-weary Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose first European ramble has left behind such anomalies as that swank Rome dance bands are still being asked by Italian socialites to play The Sidewalks of New York. On the sidewalks of Dublin last week Mr. Smith remarked to reporters how calm the polling seemed, came away from a big de Valera political rally to exclaim: "It was almost as unanimous as a Tammany meeting...
...London the German and Italian Ambassadors fortnight ago showed the solidarity of Berlin and Rome by arriving together for sessions of the increasingly farcical International Committee for Non-intervention chairmanned by Lord Plymouth. In Italy meanwhile Dictator Mussolini caused nationwide advertisements to appear of an editorial about to be printed in his personal newsorgan Popolo d'ltalia. When this came out it definitely rejected on behalf of II Duce any proposal that Italians fighting with the Rightists in Spain should be withdrawn and asked with reference to volunteers fighting with the Spanish Leftists: "Who has sufficient power to recall...
Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together...
Readers will find Northwest Passage is as historically accurate as painstaking research could make it. But whether they will consider its author the best U. S. historical novelist is another matter. Author Roberts' contemporaries, though they may rate him higher than Walter Edmonds (Rome Haul), or Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind), will not give him a majority vote over James Boyd (Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt). Author Roberts' friends complain that he has never been given his due. However, the Chronicles of Arundel (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution) have sold more than...