Word: abbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon it appeared that only small fry have been jailed. Still at liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...
Typically the chief pro-German plotters in Alsace-Lorraine are led by Roman Catholic priests like the Abbé Haegy. Reason: the Imperial German Government deliberately founded and fostered Catholic schools throughout Alsace in which youths were carefully trained up in zeal for Rome and Germany and in detestation of France which has disestablished the Roman Catholic Church...
...presidential election with lowered taxes as one of the campaign cries. But so evenly is Congress divided, and so unreliable (as party men) are several Republicans in the upper house, that Democrats can at least hamper the passage of a Republican tax bill, even if they may not be abb to pass one of their own. Political prophets look forward to a long-financial wrangle when Congress meets again...
...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
Soon the pious Abbé and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon. Each was severely reprimanded, each was fined eleven francs...