Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial, that the Government had already won both its civil suits involving Messrs. Fall, Doheny, Sinclair...
...Madame Recamier has attained moderate sale in the U. S.* Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms. The Izaak Walton of the Cabinet is Minister of Colonies Perrier, who has brought forth two books on fishing. Minister of Interior Sarraut has written much on civil government. Finally there stand on many a Parisian bookshelf two fat volumes of poems by Minister of Marine Leygues...
...Marlborough-Vanderbilt case (TIME, Dec. 6). The answer to the "question of principle" which he asks is so patent that no Catholic ever thought of giving it. "Why does the Roman Catholic Church he asks refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead (italics mine) grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state?" The Catholic Church grants no divorce, that is well-known. Neither does it grant an annulment. It announces that a marriage...
...name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions. . . . The South has used the Civil War to explain too many things...
...settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri, realist, is conscious of the value of that dramatic martyrdom which surrounds His Holiness as the "Prisoner of the Vatican...