Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On the Northwest Coast, with Japan straight across the Pacific, awareness of war's imminence was at peak. People took its coming for granted. Goat-bearded young Roman Catholic Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy of Seattle preached loudly against U. S. participation. A British Consul and the journalist dean at Washington...
Born. To Zog I, 43, Mohammedan King of the Albanians; and his wife, Catholic Queen Geraldine, 23; a son; their first child and Albania's Crown Prince; in Tirana.
Catholics looked on the Society of Jesus with much suspicion before Pope Paul III formally approved it in 1540. In Spain, where Ignatius and his handful of followers begged and taught, he was twice jailed, often investigated, once haled before the Inquisition. In Paris, Ignatius cut an odd figure as...
Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's...