Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everything there was German: officials, teachers, clergy, postmen and railwaymen. Nothing but German was spoken there any longer, and songs were sung which, if they were sung in Rome, would lead to immediate arrest...
...rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...
...Noble, into the firm of Heinz & Noble, to bottle vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after the death of the Irish girl, Sallie Sloan Young, whom...
...half an hour he cantered, galloped, walked. Later, in his motor again, he dashed through the streets of Rome, as Wilhelm der Zweite once sped down Unter den Linden-giving way only to the Municipal Fire Department...
...arts found their thoughts a little stirred, as always, by the name of those art patrons par excellence, the Borghese. Il Benito, as he rode through their onetime gardens* was well within sight of the Villa Borghase-next to the Vatican the chiefest art treasure-house in Rome. He may have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese, was paid another great compliment...