Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much feeling was manifested at a recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...
...under any ministry, it seems likely that the Baldwin cabinet will seek to outdo its defeated rivals in foreign policy. The decisive putting down of the imperial foot in Egypt, the postponement of the protocol conference at England's behest, the presence of Austen Chamberlain at the opening in Rome of the League Council point to a reliance upon England's own strength in diplomacy rather than to the dubious protection of treaties and agreements. The Tories will, of course, try to reduce taxes, without restricting the beneficent activities of the government among the needy electorate. Altogether, the next months...
Later, the League changed its opinion and decided to bring the protest to the attention of the Council. It was not certain, however, if this would be done at the next meeting which takes place this month in Rome...
...Death came to Giacomo Puccini, famed composer, at Brussels, Belgium, where he had gone for radium treatment for tumor of the throat. Weakened by the treatment, he died of a heart attack. While he lay dying, his opera Madame Butterfly was being presented at the Costanza Theatre, Rome. On the day of his death, his opera La Boheme was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, where, after the third act, Chopin's Funeral March was played by the orchestra. In Italy, Premier Mussolini announced that Puccini's funeral would be paid for by the Italian Government. Puccini...
Americans believed they heard London, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Paris, Madrid, Turin, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Rome. Abroad the greatest success seemed to be in picking up station KDKA of Pittsburgh. WJZ (Manhattan), WCAP (Washington, D. C.) and WGY (Schenectady) were among the other U, S. broadcasters...