Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Paulus Emilus, Emperor of Rome, beheld the statue of Zeus Olympus which a Greek, Phidias of Athens, had erected at Olympia in ivory and gold, he trembled in all his limbs, and ordered sacrifices to be offered before the image. Twenty years later the Emperor was dead, and in a few years more the statue itself was a fable. Few men alive in the sixth century had ever seen it, fewer still could tell what had become of it. Copies exist, worn faces on coins, busts that show the softening touch of weaker epochs. Last week a new copy...
...Rome, last week, the Pope, passing through the Basilica of St. Peter, heard a confused disorder down a twilit aisle, turned his face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown...
Married. Teresa Higginson, 25, hard-riding huntress; to Count Giangiulio Rucellai, 22, student at the University of Rome and resident of Florence, Italy; from the Higginson mansion in Lenox, Mass., where her mother and father have lived since her father George, scion of Boston Higginsons, retired from a lucrative promotion business in Chicago...
Died. Onetime Dowager Queen Olga of Greece, 76, long embittered by tragedies of her royal family; in exile at the Villa Anastasia, Rome. She was once famous as the "most queenly queen in Europe...
Nero: "Has not modern research proved that Nero (as if his character were not black enough already) while Rome was burning, played, not the fiddle, but the bagpipe...