Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annie, the adulteress, is an Irish-Catholic girl. She came to the U. S. with a young girl friend when she was 14. When she was 19 she married a kindly Protestant who was 25 years her senior. His great fault was a disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after...
Roman Catholics, who always " fight vigorously against any proposals to legalize birth control or liberalize divorce laws, had nothing to say publicly against lotteries. Their Church's attitude is that under proper circumstances gambling is not sinful. Indeed the Papal States used to run lotteries as do many Catholic...
The Bride of Torozko (by Otto Indig; Gilbert Miller and Herman Shumlin, producers). When the recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly...
Before one dawn last week Mrs. Amelia Toner, 27, lay alone with her unborn baby in a rented Brooklyn bedroom. Her Irish husband had deserted her. Her other four children were in a Catholic orphan asylum on Staten Island. No companion stood by for her impending travail.
The Author. Evelyn Waugh looks deceptively like Alice's White Rabbit dressed up for the party, but his writing is astutely stoat-like. His father is chairman of Chapman & Hall, London publishing firm. Evelyn went to Oxford, then followed his older brother into authorship. At Oxford he read history...