Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, née Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement...
...Council then adjourned, conscious that it had added two leaves of laurel to its ever-sprouting crown. The next meeting will take place at Rome...
Upon the second anniversary of the triumphant entry into Rome of the Fascist legions, the Fascist national militia, which for two years has been an extra-legal army owing allegiance only to Signor Benito Mussolini as the Dux of Fascismo, swore allegiance to King Vittorio Emanuele and ceased to be a purely party organization. At Milan, Benito's home town, Black Shirts, as the Fascist Militia is known, concentrated in large numbers to swear fealty to their King. The most spectacular parade was, however, at Rome. In the vale of the Aventine and Palatine hills, between the Colosseum...
...rumor persisted in Rome, despite official denials, that Princess Giovanna (third daughter of the King of Italy) and the Crown Prince of Belgium are shortly to be engaged to be married; also Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie-José of Belgium...
...dead of night a hearse rattled its way along the narrow streets of Rome from St. Peter's to the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Beside the hearse walked a few of the Pope's georgeous guards, a few Vatican officials. All Rome slept. The body of Pope Leo XIII was being removed, in accordance with his expressed will, to its final resting place...