Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another character has stepped from the pages of history into the spotlight of publicity and that none other than the Cumaean Sybil, a lady old at her trade when the glory of Rome was undimmed by northern indiscretions and Aeneas was neither pious nor peregrinating. For she was among the first to practice what W. C. Fields might well describe as--the old army game...
...machines. Explorers Donald B. MacMillan and Roald Amundsen have both warned against the use of planes, the Yankee agreeing with the Norseman, in view of similar experiences, that dirigibles are safer. Amundsen is going this year in the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which spent the fortnight undergoing tests at Rome. As he left the U. S. last week, Amundsen gave the airplanes one chance of success in 1,500; felt his one chance was 100% good on a 50-hour dirigible flight...
...Circolo Italiano of Harvard has announced that Dr. Lauro de Bosis, of the University of Rome and Royal Commissioner of the Modern Italian Art Exhibit in America, will give an illustrated lecture, Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock, on Ancient and Modern Italy in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture will be in connection with motion pictures on the subject...
...Bosis was formerly a scientist and received his degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome. He then turned to art and literature and is now one of the most promising youthful poets in that field. His father, Adolpho de Bosis the poet, began the new movement in literature along with D'Annunzio and Pascoll in their review, "II Convito." It was in this publication that D'Annunzio made his literary debut...
...only because of a contemplated trip of vagabondage to Italy next summer, but also because of a lecture I once heard in Fogg, I have a desire for completer understanding of the early Christian basilicas in Rome. At noon today I am going to Robinson Hall to hear Professor Conant's talk which will make clear many points I should like to have explained...