Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
Benito Mussolini also said in Rome: "In vain did others try to steal the glory! I say in a voce of thunder that you, Nobile, you an Italian, wisely guided the Norge to the end of her extraordinary voyage...
...permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti which had weathered the endurance test...
Mabel Boll, "Queen of Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Tacci, 64, archbishop of Nicaea, papal nuncio in Belgium during the World War; in Rome. In February 1922, erroneous reports from Rome told that Cardinal Tacci had been made pope by the Conclave of Cardinals...