Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rights & wrongs of artificial insemination were hotly debated last week by delegates to the Congress of Catholic Doctors in Rome. Up to that time, there had been no authoritative word on the subject from the Vatican...
...whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until he met her at the plane in Rome that she "realized it was Roberto, the man, who had inspired her . . ." Now she did not intend to return to the U.S. until she could come back as Mrs. Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter half their community...
During the Holy Years of the Middle Ages (notably 1300 and 1350), two deacons are said to have been stationed permanently by the altar rails of St. Peter's in Rome, armed with rakes to scrape up the gold, silver and precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...
...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
Cleanup Week. When Vatican officials heard that Rome's professional pickpockets were already casing St. Peter's Square for areas of easiest pickings, they decided things had gone far enough. Last week a committee consisting of Rome's chief of police, chief of the carabinieri and a Vatican representative cleared all stalls from the steps of St. Peter's, banned all vendors, photographers and beggars from the square...