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Late that evening a tired, trembling, haggard man appeared at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, asked for the physician in charge. Dr. Arthur Tiber answered. Announced the stranger thickly: "I am Lieutenant Coffey, of the Safety Bureau. The police have been looking for me all day. Please take my pistol from me. I am very nervous. I feel that I am going to have a breakdown...
...Tiber, astonished, looked...
Again the officer pleaded to be relieved of his pistol, showed his identifying police badge. Dr. Tiber asked him why he did not do so himself...
Benito Mussolini put on his gold embroidered frock coat, sword, trousers with gold stripes, decorations, hat like an admiral's only much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved...
...today. Tiberius was scoffed at and rebuked until at last he tried in desperation to hold out the precepts of democracy upon the point of his sword. And the wrath of the city arose and smote him for his impudence and his body was thrown by night into father Tiber. Far away at Numantia his brother in law, whom the Romans called Africans, heard the news and recalled a line of Homer "So perish all who do the like again...