Word: rome
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Edward Mooney, born in Mt. Savage, Md. 55 years ago, was sent, as only the most promising Catholic youths are sent, to the North American College in Rome. Returning to the diocese of Cleveland, Father Mooney served as a professor at the Seminary of Our Lady of the Lake, later established and headed Cathedral Latin School for boys. He held a pastorate in Youngstown, Ohio until, in 1923, he was recalled to Rome to be Spiritual Director of his own North American College. The late Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, met the U. S. priest in preparing...
Comments on some of the men were: Lake, McIlwain, Langer -- brilliant scholars and lecturers. Karpovich: now examiner, excellent tutor. Baxter. Forceful lecturer, sometimes gives opinions as facts; scholar, good tutor. Ferguson: scholar; dull but good lecturer with small groups; better on Greece than Rome. Haring: scholar; covers large field well. Morison: scholar, good lecturer. Brinton, Buck, McKay, Jordan: good lecturers; excellent tutors. Schlesinger: scholar; most of time to graduate students; dull lecturer. Merk: careful; good lecturer; scholar. Doolin: poor lecturer; excellent tutor. Evans, Fairbank, Gleason: good tutors
There, of course, the repercussions were violent. Leaves were reported canceled throughout the entire Nazi navy, all over the world. Hour after hour Adolf Hitler conferred with his army, navy and state officers. Urgent telephone calls went through to Rome and Forli where Benito Mussolini was vacationing. Depressed Pope Pius (on his 80th birthday) went into retirement, fainted, remained unconscious for 20 minutes...
While his sister toured Europe, Vittorio was. content to stay home studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...
...Brown Derby and cigar with which he had had himself photographed on his arrival in Rome, Al Smith had substituted, before his audience, the required full dress and top hat. Kneeling, he received the Papal blessing, then had a chance to chat privately with His Holiness, with Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower...