Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
FOUNTAINS OF ROME...
...resignation, turned the ship back to its captain. With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams. I am now the proprietor of a New York daily. . . . I only bespeak the patience of friends and public for time to 'Build My Rome...
...Rome-builder Kobler? He is nearly 52 years old and has never been a newspaper reporter. He dresses smartly, carries a malacca stick, and speaks in a Milt Gross accent. He lives in one of the largest apartments on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Once, his charming wife expressed a fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate...
Since then Law has been slowly enlarging the circumference of Signor Mussolini's vengeance. Last week the father and mother of Lynchee Zamboni were sentenced at Rome to 30 years in Jail as instigators and accomplices...