Word: romanizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...obliged to sign a document giving up all claim to succeed to the head of that branch of the Hesse family, so that he is really now nothing but a private German citizen. Of course the reason he had to sign this was because he was marrying a Roman Catholic and naturally the Hesse family would never acknowledge a Roman Catholic family (wife and future children) belonging to them as leaders. It is certainly a love match and of course a very poor marriage for the King of Italy's rich daughter; the Savoy family is very wealthy...
tLike "Tiger" Clemenceau and Caillaux, Marshal Lyautey is the living embodiment of the relentlessly active proconsuls of Roman times. He is never still. Rising at 6:30, it is his custom to work restlessly through a long day, conferring with his subordinates even at dinner, making plans late in the evening. His friends wonder if he will "break" with the sudden lifting of the pressure of affairs...
Signor Mussolini does not read his history in vain. Having profited so much already by the study of Imperial Roman methods he is celebrating the third anniversary of his advent to power by delving into archives of the Middle Ages. He has brought the policy to light again, with rare appreciation of the spirit in which that official was originally created...
...nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years before...
...moment the resolution seemed upon the point of passing; the vexed question of "disarmament" was to be shelved again. Then up rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...