In this 1933 musical comedy, the round-eyed, sweetly leering comedian Eddie Cantor stars as Eddie, a bookish drifter who is run out of the small town of West Rome for speaking truth to the petty martinet of a mayor.

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It happened on a cold, rainy night in Georgia when I heard " West of Rome" (audio).

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M. discovered Chesnutt playing at a club in Athens, Ga. and went on to produce Chesnutt's first two albums, Little and West of Rome.

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West and south of Siena, and two hours north of Rome, it sweeps from a Tyrrhenian seacoast of limestone cliffs, deserted dunes, and umbrella pines that look like fantasy broccoli forests, across broad plains of olive trees and scented Mediterranean brush, and up to shadowy woodlands and ancient, fortified hill towns.

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The Rome-based agency is currently assessing needs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but estimates that its three-month operation would help 300, 000 people and require about 12, 000 metric tons of food, Berthiaume told a news briefing in Geneva.

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Dolan spent seven years in Rome as rector of the North American College, considered the West Point for U.S. priests, where he had studied for his own ordination years earlier.

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