Word: 1840s
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...recommended" for use in public schools. The Regents were trying to resolve a conflict over what kind of religious observances should be held in public schools, attended by children of parents who profess various religious beliefs. The issue had vexed school authorities for more than a century: in the 1840s, Roman Catholics rioted in New York City in protest against the reading of the King James Version of the Bible in public schools...
Martha Schlamme in Concert (M-G-M). In a voice fresh as a sea breeze, Viennese-born Singer Schlamme conducts a folk tour mostly of Europe, avoiding the more familiar stops. Among her wistful best: The Praeties They Are Small, about the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and that Weill-Brecht triumph of despair, Surabaya Johnny...
...Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain John Eyre, and after picking a onetime lord mayor of London, Simon Eyre, as a likely ancestor, wrote a convincing biography and genealogy of him. Eyre, according to Thompson, was born in Blakewell...
...sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition of reason, which is the Catholic tradition, to assert itself...
Mark Twain once said: "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." Last week NBC's Project 20 movingly remembered what happened to Mark, from his Hannibal, Mo. boyhood in the 1840s to the day of his death, exactly 50 years ago. Mark Twain's America followed the technique of Project 20's earlier and equally successful Meet Mr. Lincoln, used some 1,000 old photographs to bring back the patch of U.S. history Samuel Clemens helped needle into place. The pictures of the Old West, which attracted Twain as both reporter...