Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyed, bouncing Bambino Romano Mussolini was born Sept. 27, 1927. At age 14 months he bounced once around Ancient Rome while Fascists roared enthusiastic "Ala-ala-alalas!" (TIME, Dec. 10), in the arms of Papa Benito Mussolini, who bounced in turn upon a large white horse...
Expostulating in Rome, Count Dalla Torre, Editor of the Papal news organ Osservatore Romano, and recognized by most Catholics as the temporal spokesman for the Pope, declared that news arising out of the new Papal state is not "political." Acknowledging that "foreign newspapers, with few exceptions" are treating temporal news of the new Papal State as "political news," Count Dalla Torre explained in a signed editorial that the Holy See's reconciliation with the Italian State was "entirely religious." It is believed in Rome that Count Dalla Torre never signs an editorial until it has been read...
Last week the 150 state banks of Naples wired to Rome, asking that fifty million lira ($2,500,000) be rushed south at once. Throngs of Neapolitans danced and cavorted through the streets, shrieking, delirious with joy. When the cash began to arrive in vanloads, each of the 150 banks became a scene of pandemonium. Once again...
Alexander. When Julius Csesar made his famed remark about preferring to be first in a little Iberian village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown...
...present donation is of considerable interest. The drawings range from representations of antique textiles to exquisite chapter headings, from designs taken from the mosaics of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome to sketches similar to one entitled "William Morris speaking from a wagon in Hyde Park, May 1, 1894." The drawings were intended for reproduction and many of them bear, in the artist's handwriting, instructions to the engraver and frequently the words: "Return to Walter Crane: 18 Holland St., Kensington...