Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pius looked about for some more worldly figure on whom to lean in the grave duty of administering affairs of state. At that time young Merry del Val, only 38, had acted as secretary of the Conclave of Cardinals and was director of the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics at Rome, where he had studied for the priesthood...
...Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
With pomp and circumstance last week Italians began their formal opera season. In Rome Soprano Claudia Muzio sang in Norma and His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele went to listen, with Queen Elena and Princess Giovanna. In Milan the opera was Meistersinger, the ovation for Conductor Arturo Toscanini. He leaves Milan soon for the U. S. where he will conduct the last half-season of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony...
Died. Dr. Andrew Amici, physician to Achille Ratti, Pope Pius XI; of bronchial pneumonia; in Rome...
...that embraces all creeds, all times, in a common human experience. It occurs at the time of the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its farthest point south, and the day begins to grow longer. Pagans throughout the world, in ages past, held festivals at this period. In ancient Rome at the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-21), windows and rooms were decked with holly wreaths; and at the Sigittaria (Dec. 22), it was customary to give presents, especially dolls, to the children...