Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago prosecutions for looting averaged twelve daily. Labor's Clement Richard Attlee told the Trades Union Congress that "Hitler has already suffered grievous defeats." The Sultan of Johore's girl friend, Lydia Cecily Hill, was killed by a bomb...
...Oranges and lemons," Say the bells of Saint Clement...
...year-old St. Clement Danes Church, which lies like an island surrounded by the traffic of the Strand, only the walls and tower still stand. Of St. Clement's eleven bells, six have been destroyed. A month after the blitzing of St. Clement's last spring, its vicar, the Rev. Mr. William Pennington-Bickford, died-of a broken heart, his parishioners said. Last week his widow was buried beside him. She had jumped to her death from an attic window after telling her cook: "I prayed every night that God might take...
Before 1908 mixed marriages were not questioned in Quebec, because in 1741 Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject...
...Churchill ("Clemmie") sprinted down the platform. Behind her trotted slim Clement Richard Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, and massive Sir John Anderson, the Lord President of Council. Churchill grinned and watched their approach. Then he gathered his wife in a vast bear hug and bussed her on both cheeks...