Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will please give a definition of the name Buffoon such as you used in connection with the real American Senator Heflin, also give reason for printing so much about the Pope of Rome, what do 85% of the people of America care for such stuff as is printed on p. 20 of April...
Generous, the Government at Rome offered to defray the entire expense of building an electric railway from the nearest Italian junction to the frontier of San Marino. Surely, said Il Duce's agents last week, surely the Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...Unmarried men, citizens of the U. S., not over 30 years old" may compete for four annual Prix de Rome scholarships.* One prize is for painting, one for sculpture, one for architecture, one for landscaping. The winners receive, $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus free lodgings and studios at the American Academy in Rome, plus life membership? in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
...Founded by a group of architects and artists including Charles F. McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...
...spent the equivalent of 208 days above the earth. From Boston, he plans to fly to Philadelphia, then to Charleston, S. C., Pensacola, Fla., Memphis, Tenn, St. Louis, Chicago, Montreal and then to Newfoundland, from where he will take off for the Azores, Spain and back to Rome...