Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elsewhere we rent?in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels. The Hague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berne, Madrid, Lisbon. Only in the last decade has much progress been made in putting our representatives into American-owned homes. Several of the few we own?vide London, Mexico City? are the gifts of wealthy Americans. Crowded offices, dirty buildings, bad plumbing have been the earmarks of our official residences abroad. Gradually we are improving...
...Rome, assembled the Italian Parliament minus its Opposition. Some 150 Socialist Deputies, true to their promise made after the murder of Matteotti (TIME, June 23), boycotted the Legislature with the result that 250 Fascisti and a mere handful of Liberals and Communists disported themselves on the benches and tried to make the Chamber of Deputies look crowded...
...Rome, simultaneously on the eve of the reopening of Parliament, were held plenary meetings of Fascist and Socialist Opposition Deputies. The first assembled to hear a speech from Premier Mussolini; the second to approve a proclamation to the Italian people. Reports of both meetings were published in Italian newspapers at the same time and they showed the yawning chasm which divides political Italy. This is particularly brought out by The New York Times, which presented the chief points made in the form of a dialog...
They came, they saw, they gave it up. The New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox, seeking to acquire cash and culture simultaneously by means of exhibition baseball games in Europe (TIME, Sept. 29), disbanded in Paris. Some headed for Berlin, others for Rome, some for the Riviera, some for the battlefields. All were agreed that the trip had gone far enough. Despatches stated no causes, but probable ones were: bored spectators, slender receipts, foul weather, diverting sights, fare, people...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...