Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliot and Waugh joined the Catholic Church*. . . . But in so doing they committed themselves to nothing.
*T. S. Eliot is an Anglo-Catholic, Evelyn Waugh a Roman Catholic.-ED.
With relief, outspoken Arthur Healey resigned his hot spot on the Dies committee, shifted to the Smith group. Prematurely grey Mr. Healey, long a stentorian New Dealer, had been working under wraps on the Dies group, with his strongly Catholic constituency clamoring for more vigorous Red-baiting. California's...
Catholics and Socialists could combine to put conservative Dr. Colijn out, but neither was strong enough to put anyone else in. Traditional parliamentary behavior for such conservatives as Jonkheer de Geer would have been to watch Catholic and Socialist leaders flounder through the attempt, gleefully call attention to each failure...
* Catholic Author Arnold Lunn's phrase for getting hot over persecution in one country, keeping cool over it in another.