Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the play, an enlarged and presumably expensive orchestra thunders away at Erik Fane's great music. The action aims to tell the story of his life, on which he based his symphony. First he flees Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief...
...American Classical League has rushed assistance in the form of an imposing array of statistics by which, among other things, they show, as usual, that classical scholars have a higher average in all other subjects than do students who have not dipped into the rewarding, if difficult literatures of Rome and Athens. The inference seems to be that the classics are worthy of study merely for the mental training involved...
...discussion, which aroused all Rome, hinged upon whether the Opposition would take its seats during the next session of Parliament. Because of the Matteotti murder (TIME, June 23, et seq) and because Mussolini will not dismiss his Fascisti militia, the Opposition declared it would not sit in Parliament. Whether or not the Opposition takes its seats is an irrelevant point hardly worthy of discussion. The Fascisti, according to the provisions of the new electoral law, have a two-thirds majority of the seats and can, therefore, pass any measure which has Government support...
...Nuovo Paese (Rome Journal), professed to know which way the wind is blowing in the U. S. Discussing the coming Presidential election, the paper said...
...Name of small church in Rome of which, as Cardinal, O'Connell is parish priest...