Word: palermo
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...does she magnify it that every character is touched by it, obsessed by it. The setting is New Moon Yard, an old tinderbox of a tenement in London. Some of the characters, mostly tenants of the Yard: a happy old Italian who hoards pound notes against a return to Palermo, scorns wasting two or three of them on fire insurance; an ex-Captain who lost all his nerve under fire, all his possessions in a fire; a cabinetmaker, who keeps forgetting to mail a letter to an insurance company taking out a fire policy; a profiteer, who wants to build...
...full sun beat pitilessly on the wide, graceful avenue that borders Sicily's Palermo Gulf. Half a mile away on the waters of the Mediterranean many of Italy's finest men-of-war were riding at anchor. Beads of sweat trickled from II Duce's dictatorial brow to the collar of his crisp white suit as he held forth from a 30-foot-high podium to thousands of Sicilians sweltering below...
Hopping off after a week's sightseeing in Rome, Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh paused at Palermo, Sicily, stopped at Tripoli to visit Governor-General Italo Balbo, flew on to Cairo...
...miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars on all four sides. There Cardinal Pacelli joined with four other Princes of the Church-Verdier of Paris, Hlond of Poland, Cerejeira of Portugal and Leme da Silviera...
...girls collapsed. Twice on the closing day of the Eucharistic Congress 1,000,000 people fervently massed in Palermo Park for a pontifical mass celebrated by Cardinal Pacelli, and a long triumphal procession. Through loudspeakers at the close of the mass came the firm voice of Pope Pius XI. In a benediction broadcast to the world he said: "Only where the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ rules are there offers of promises. Only so, in fact, will this poor world, which we see afflicted with fraternal and regal bloodshed, be able to find true and stable peace...