Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland by Mayor Davis, Governor Davey, Bishop Schrembs, Judge Joy Seth Kurd. As official representative of President Roosevelt, who sent a warm greeting, Postmaster General James...
...boat she met Edwin Dodge, wealthy, blue-eyed, curly-haired Boston architect, married him after a brief romance and with him established a magnificent home in Florence. There went artists, writers, cosmopolitans, prophets, telling their stories, enacting dramas, and making bold or furtive love to their hostess. The Dodges knew Pen Browning, jolly, rotund sculptor who was always uncomfortable because people expected him to live up to his role as the offspring of the romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. They knew Lady Paget, friend of Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World...
Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, declared that a similar situation existed at the beginning of every year, but that the students' parking problems were a personal matter, and no concern of the University. A brief talk with the Cambridge Fire Chief revealed little more. The only parking practice that bothers the Fire Department is that of blocking fire plugs. It appears that none exist in the triangle. The Chief of the Police Department took no more interest in the affair than did his fire-fighting brother. His only comment was to the effect that the police department had enough parking...
Party Above State. Far more important than these laws was a brief but epochal announcement to the Party Congress by Adolf Hitler. He declared that hereafter "problems the State is unable to solve will be solved by the Nazi movement...
...adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool." That Grant's career was inconsistent, Dr. Hesseltine fully realizes. He seems less aware of its grotesqueness, its humor, and its influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry Adams remain the best summary of Grant's limitations. In himself Grant seemed to contain several distinct personalities: 1) the timid man who could not refuse a gift or disappoint a friend; 2) the general who would not lose a battle; 3) the ignorant...