Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Rightist President announced that he and his followers have set out on a "quest for social justice." He postulated that "Liberal regimes have always failed in Spain" and that "agents of international Communism as well as Democracy" have helped Leftist Spain. In its territory, charged the Generalissimo, 400,000...
The Rightist President said that during the past year his Government, in addition to prosecuting the war, had stabilized prices, held down rents, abolished civil divorce and civil marriage (restoring these matters to the Catholic Church), and had given the people in Rightist Spain a Charter of Labor.
From the managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic weekly, Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the New York Times last week received a suggestion about the treatment of dispatches from his Barcelona correspondent, Lawrence A. Fernsworth. Gruff "Jimmy" James replied promptly:
In the summer of 1922 a dark, brush-headed trap drummer named Gene Bertram Krupa, not long out of a Catholic college, heard Drummer Ben Pollack's band play in a Chicago hotspot. What struck him most about Ben Pollack's outfit was the playing of Pollack'...
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bluestocking wife had three children, Una, Julian and Rose. Una became an Angelican nun and died in England at 35. Julian became his father's biographer, wrote some 50 volumes, died in 1934 in San Francisco, Calif, at the age of 88. Rose turned Catholic...