Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Canada Dry staged a birthday broadcast and shindig at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for its experts of the year, guests and regulars, and for close friends and associates of Information Please. With Postmaster James Aloysius Farley as the guest, Kieran, Adams & Levant for the first time in their career missed not a single question (although Jim Farley caused a few anxious moments by hemming & hawing over the identity of faces on new U. S. stamp issues...
...good usage "Reverend" is not found with only a last name after it. Incorrect: Reverend Jones. Correct: the Reverend Dr. Jones; the Reverend J. A. Jones; the Reverend Mr. James Aloysius Jones...
...realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained the fact that this seemed to be England's war-and most U. S. Catholic churchmen are of Irish...
That insulin is a magic key to sanity, no psychiatrist believes. Says Dr. James Aloysius Flaherty, Dr. Strecker's young assistant: "It is carelessly gambling with a recovery hard-won to send a patient home without making real effort to stabilize the environment to which he must return or to exercise as many safeguarding precautions in planning his immediate course of action as are reasonably possible." Some doctors even press social responsibilities upon their patients in between injections, encourage them to work and play with other patients...
...that reason the impeccable Grover Aloysius Whalen last week tiptoed around the edges of the battlegrounds of Europe, drumming up trade for the 1940 edition of his World of Tomorrow. From Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign...