Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arista Gallery were etchings and lithographs from this and later periods. At the Buchholz Gallery were recent drawings by the artist, including Mother & Two Children (see cut), and four pieces of sculpture done since 1932, when Artist Kollwitz produced her first strong work in stone for a Belgian cemetery, where her youngest son was buried after his death in the German offensive...
...since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well as Communism...
...heavily barred, thickly glassed, air-conditioned wagon drawn by six white horses. Stocky & truculent, he stared menacingly out of his cage, was characterized by Frank Buck as "the most ferocious, most terrifying and most dangerous of all living creatures."* A coastal gorilla from the swamps of the Belgian Congo, Gargantua was brought to the U. S. as a baby by Captain Arthur Phillips, was bought by Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, animal-training wife of a stomach specialist, grew to apehood in Brooklyn. Now seven years old, 460 pounds when last weighed, with a savage 6-foot arm reach that has mauled...
...three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked...
Last year His Eminence Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Primate of Belgium, ordered Belgian Catholics to vote against the Rexist (Fascist) Party of Lé Degrelle on (TIME, April 19). Recently Cardinal van Roey wrote his clergy explaining that such orders of the hierarchy, even entering as they do the political sphere, are binding upon the faithful from the moment they are issued. The controversy which followed Cardinal van Roey's letter became so heated that ...he submitted his views to the Pope. From Pius XI the Cardinal last week received assurance that his teachings are completely in line...