Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction of legislation to compel wage earners to disclose their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took a deep breath as Neville Chamberlain, whose good spouse knows very well that his quarterly Government pay check is $12,500, rose to answer. Said he, somewhat more crisply than usual: "He will...
...Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. . . ." ("I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope.") There was a cheer. He continued, spacing his words dramatically: "Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum meum. . . ." ("My most eminent and most reverend lord. . . .") "Dominum Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor...
...Catholic statesman, born of a noble (but not rich) Roman family which had furnished functionaries to the Holy See for two centuries, Eugenic Pacelli rose swiftly. During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV's famed peace proposals. By the time he returned to Rome in 1929 to accept his red hat, Cardinal Pacelli had arranged papal concordats with Bavaria, with Prussia. Two months later he succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State...
...foot frame in condition by exercising in a completely equipped gymnasium in his Secretary of State's apartments-from which, presumably, he will move as soon as the late Pope's living quarters, two floors above, are redecorated. On his first day as Pope, Pius XII rose at 6 a.m., shaved himself with his electric razor, celebrated Mass, breakfasted on coffee and rolls, then embarked upon a busy day during which his only diversions were a motor ride in the Vatican gardens, a brief walk by himself...
...that "Stardust," on the other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First...