Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abruptly the Jewish organ Danziger Echo was suspended for ten months. The only other Opposition organ still appearing, the Catholic Volkszeitung, was wiped out for printing a letter from Danzig Bishop Edward O'Rourke in which he wrote: "The Senate has made war on all the Free City'...
As the Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis...
Its Protestant is Dr. High. Its Jew is Mrs. Estelle Sternberger, dynamic director of World Peaceways. Its Catholic is that voluble Louisville, Ky. varnish maker, Col. Patrick Henry Callahan. As their first joint achievement last week, Good Neighbors High, Sternberger and Callahan produced an eminent anticlimax by announcing that the...
* In the Roman Catholic Church the penalty of excommunication may be inflicted, according to jurisdiction, by nearly every prelate from Pope down to vicar general. A dread excommunication formula-which Anglicans once used -ends: "We deprive him . . . of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord. We separate...
Gimnar's Daughter, one of her first novels, was published in 1909, when Sigrid Undset was 27. A brief, direct story, melodramatic as the folk tales on which it is modeled, it lacks both the involved psychological analyses that weight down her modern fiction, the realistic details that distinguish...