Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied by his son Paul, sailed for Europe last week on the Majestic to visit his daughter and her husband, David Bruce, now U. S. vice-consul at Rome. Mr. Mellon had just issued a statement saying that the pre-armistice debts contracted by France, Italy, Belgium were all actually canceled by the terms of the settlements made with the U. S., but that these agreements in no way affected peacetime or commercial loans. General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, talked, meanwhile, with Britishers...
...Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards at Aflar and Dobrudja. One Eva Maneva, little known outside the violent bandit aristocracy of Bulgaria, was found in the vicinity of Dobrudja with her head hacked off by a bayonet...
...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...
...After centuries of Athens and Rome, Italy, everlasting heir of all beauty and grief, ceases neither to create nor to suffer, conscious that her wingless victory lies grasped in the palm of her almighty destiny...
...everyone knows, Signor Mussolini's most robust hate obsession is inspired by a skulking fear that the blond Pan-German tide may some day engulf Italy as the Teutons engulfed Rome, by pouring down through the Brenner Pass. This lowest of the Trans-Alpine highways (4,495 ft.) is now held at its chief strategic points by Italy and constitutes one of her most passionately cherished spoils...