Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also found a new urge to keep himself in the public eye. He had welcomed the U.N. to Hunter College, paid tribute to Cardinal Francis J. Spellman on his return from Rome, spoken at a dinner honoring Winston Churchill, opened the season for the New York Giants by tossing out the first ball, been guest of honor at the Washington correspondents' Gridiron Dinner, taken his family to the circus at Madison Square Garden (see cut), and averaged some three speeches a week in Albany...
Innocenzo Pietropaoli fed himself and his wife Natalina and his daughter Maria by tilling his acre of land at Anticoli Corrado, a mountain village 35 miles north of Rome. Even in the remote and incredibly rich days of 1938, its produce (half of which went to the landlord) had to be carefully husbanded to feed the Pietropaolis...
Archbishop Urban John Vehr of Denver, ceremonially draped with a pallium* brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
This week Trenet sang some of his songs in a Gallic English. As translated by Broadway Lyricist Harold (Pins and Needles, Call Me Mister) Rome, J'ai ta Main lost most of ifis charming mystery, sounded like dozens of other Tin Pan Alley banalities...
There were few disorders. The most spectacular occurrence was in Rome, where masked Fascist gunmen seized the master radio transmitter and for a few minutes sang Fascist hymns and cheered Mussolini...