Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer Rachel McDowell got a three-weeks' vacation instead of her usual two. She resolved to go to Italy "to kneel before the Sovereign Pontiff," Pope Pius XI. From one of her most useful Manhattan contacts, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Miss McDowell begged a letter smoothing the way...
''About a week before sailing time my letter from Cardinal Hayes arrived. . . . His Eminence has given me permission to quote the letter. . . . But it is so complimentary, so much more praiseworthy than I deserve, that on sober second judgment I just can't make that letter public...
At the hospital the Senator was taken straight to the operating room. On examining his wound physicians found that the bullet had twice pierced his colon, made its way out through his back. On the operating table, the intestinal punctures were sewed up. Then Huey Long was put to bed...
¶The Realmleader, though nominally a Catholic, was said to approve a new credo devised by black-trousered Paul Stoelcel of the elite Hitler Special Guard:
To Stefan Zweig the question of her guilt or innocence is largely irrelevant. Queen of Scotland when she was six days old, Queen of France at 16, Mary had known power, security, ease, without having struggled for them, had no experience in statecraft when, at the age of 18, she...