Word: cathedras
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Caralli of Leuchtenberg. During the coming year such pictures of the hovering Virgin, the angels and vacant tomb will be increasingly exhibited. When Pius XII finally proclaims the new dogma from the altar of the Cathedra, in St. Peter's, Roman Catholic Christendom will be waiting...
...Cathedra. In Wimbledon, England, the Rev. W. A. Gibson noted that there were fewer buttons in the collection plate than there used to be, but came to a bitter conclusion: it was not morality that had increased, but the price of buttons...
...despite the massiveness of the symbol, the Pope is also supremely important as a man. For as Pope (when he speaks ex cathedra), he is infallible. But as a man, he is fallible like any other. And this fallibility determines his place among the "good" Popes or the "bad" Popes, and hence his influence upon history...
This issue's poetry ranks for above that of the Advocate's recent years. Without a pretense of profundity George Montgomery's series, "Ice in June," skillfully weds the short line stanza to an almost epigrammatic subject matter. Like William Ober's "Murder ex Cathedra," these light and occasionally brilliant pieces are not of the sort which receive permanent resting place in the Widener Treasure Room, but as "occasional" lyrics skillfully integrating form and subject, they make delightful reading. Ormonde de Kay has contributed "Hopscotch," a pleasantly wistful bit of reminiscence, not inappropriately hidden on the last page. Contrasting sharply...
Climax of this historical build-up was a horrible example: the dismembered body of a comfortable old-fashioned overstuffed easy chair which lay behind the bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...