Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battle of Wheat." At the opening of the first national Wheat Exhibition in Rome, Signor Mussolini declared his satisfaction with this year's crop, assessed at 275,000,000 tons, but called attention to the fact that the goal of 375,000,000 tons a year was still a long way off, the figure at which, cereally speaking, Italy will become self-supporting. Said...
Perhaps Poland may now look forward to new Fascist innovations, for. the two dictators are sure to discuss the relative merits of dictatorship, etc. It is recalled that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary returned from Rome early in the year to promise the startled and unhappy Hungarians a few Fascist reforms, so enamored was he of Signor Mussolini's personality and government...
Biggest? Bishop Freeman's dramatization of Washington Cathedral makes it seem the biggest cathedral in the world. It is not Saint Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordova and the Sainta Maria de La Sede in Seville, of those abroad, are far larger. Washington is like Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Cologne and York cathedrals?famed less for size than for associations. In America there are notable cathedrals at Mexico City, Santa Fe and Montreal; and in Manhattan there is St. John the Divine...
...from the same clientele. Last week St. John the Divine's committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet of Washington Cathedral, which ranks eighth in size among the cathedrals, of the world. The central tower of St. John the Divine will rise to a height of 400 feet...
Everybody knows the melody. Jessie Brown Pounds and John S. Pearis composed it in 1897, when Cardinal O'Connell was in Rome, domestic prelate to Pope Leo XIII. Voices welling with young love sang it from stoops to hollyhocks and sunflowers nodding in moonlight; voices welling with grief sang it at funeral services. It still draws applause at burlesque shows, and it still can soften the memory of clods plumping down on coffins. It is an accepted hymn in many a Christian church...