Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be given tonight at the Pops: Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Nicolal Invitation to the Dance, Weber-Berlioz Pavane in Memory of a Child, Ravel Roumanian Rhapsody, Enesco "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem, Respight "Omphale's Spinning Wheel," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens "Espana," Rhapsody, Chabrier Negro Rhapsody, R. Goldmark Valse Triste, Sibelius "Tannhauser," Overture, Wagner
...Sicily and below Naples, where the power of Fascismo is more a distant threat than a present force, prices and wages scarcely wavered. In central Italy there was obedience at Rome and in Fascist centres generally, but much resistance elsewhere...
...most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...have been found in meteorites; most of them resemble stones; a few contain a large percentage of iron ore. Perhaps the most famed meteorite of history was the black, cone-shaped stone which fell in Phrygia; was worshiped by the Greeks as Cybele, mother of gods; was taken to Rome in 204 B. C. to insure Roman prosperity...
Impelled by Signor Mussolini, the newspapers of Rome began, last week, a concerted campaign urging men to go hatless. "A bare head is more hygienic, more comfortable, and more ROMAN," declared Italian editors, recalling that the sturdy citizens of ancient Rome went bareheaded...