Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third time in a twelvemonth Death darted a sable claw last week at Benito Mussolini. He had just returned to Rome from attending military maneuvers in Umbria with King Vittorio Emanuele. Having spent the night at his sumptuous suburban residence, a villa lent by Count Torlonia, Signor Mussolini breakfasted frugally, set off for his office...
...field day. In Chicago they had a wonderful parade, just on account of me. I left the Hotel Bismarck, climbed in a truck. In front of me was at boisterous brass band which kept playing "How Dry I Am." Beside me rode my daddy, like Pompey returning to Rome in triumph. In case you do not know him, my daddy is a nice old man-rather chubby and rather bald-has name is George E. Brennan [Democratic nominee for Senator from Illinois (TIME...
...lira rose in one day last week from 3.28c to 3.75c on Wall Street, the dollar sinking from 31.01 lire to 27.80 in Rome...
...saintly youth did go away, went to Rome where he entered the Society of Jesus in 1567 and died within a year of a chest* affliction. All Poland acclaimed the virtues of Stanislas, and in 1605 the Pope recognized the youth's wide popularity, gave him a niche among the Church's galaxy of saints...
...Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had not realized that many people were as interested in the cinema-man's disease as in his personality. Indeed, so gauntly meagre were the hospital bulletins that an Italian correspondent cabled Mr. Valentino's malady as "appendicitis." Dr. Porzio was deceived. But no one in the U. S. explained...