Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Everyman lyveth so after his owne pleasure, And yet of theyr lyfe they be nothynge sure. . . ." The Cardinal Archbishop, settling his dalmatic more comfortably, arranged himself to listen, his small brown face screwed into a mask of naive anticipation. Nobody else moved. Behind him the burgesses of Salzburg listened respectfully...
Famed Ladies' Home Journalist Edward William Bok was cradled at drowsy Helder, in the Netherlands, has achieved newsboy-to-vice-president&* success during his last 47 years (spent mostly in the U. S.). Recently he returned to the Netherlands, ferreted (with intent to laud) into the question of how...
Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (Pope Pius XI) announced last week that, in view of the Mexican crisis, he would postpone his vacation. As everyone knows, the Sanctissimus Pater, goes vacationing each year, despite his self-imposed "imprisonment," by moving out from the stuffy Vatican to his cool Casino in the...
Ringed about by British, French and Italian dominated territories, the quadruple Empire of Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one potent aboriginal state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing...
In 1910 he fell to supplying newpapers with literary parodies and burlesques, applying to his accumulation of old-world scholarship a shrewd and lively buffoonery, that evoked (at first) sniffs in England, amusement in Canada, guffaws in the U. S. He made marionettes of A, B and C in the...