Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most adept was the papal policy which suggested that a decree of the late Pope Benedict XV be used as the authority for Cardinal Kakowski's warning. By that means the present Pope Pius XI, once Papal Nuncio to Poland, will tend to escape criticism among Poles. Poles...
...nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father's sermons, the notorious Stephen Burroughs tramped...
...which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental fact that Washington was a good businessman. Ask the writers of the article to clean the spiderwebs from their minds by reading a little about Benedict Spinoza, or, if they have not the leisure (or the intelligence) and if they have any faith in the judgment of the great contemporary philosophy slogan-maker, refer them to this sentence in The Story of Philosophy: "Nietzsche says somewhere that the last Christian died upon the cross...
...Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...
Tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 in the same place, Mme Galli Curel will sing some beautiful seventeenth and eighteenth century songs from the French and Italian, airs from Mozart's "Figaro" and a number of other very interesting selections, prominent among which is Benedict's "Gipsy and the Bird", for which there will be a flute obligate...