Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Agostino Gemelli, 81, Roman Catholic theologian who served (1936-59) as president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, wrote prolifically on matters of health and morals, flayed Freud and denied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, was a confidant to Pope Pius XI ; in Milan, Italy.
Confidant of F. Scott Fitzgerald and an inquisitive observer of many matters political, social, and literary, Wilson began his writing career as a reporter on the old New York Evening Sun in 1916.
Psyche-Semantic. Slinking away in disgrace, Henderson and Romilayu next camp with an ugly-mannered tribe called the Wariri. Here Henderson redeems himself by lifting a previously unbudgeable wooden idol during a riotous rainmaking ritual. He is acclaimed as Sungo, the Rain King, blushingly dons the transparent green silk bloomers...
Carlo Confalonieri, 65, has given up his favorite sport of mountain climbing, which he practiced as a sergeant in World War I. Son of a cabinetmaker in the north Italian town of Seveso, he was aide and confidant of Achille Cardinal Ratti, both as Archbishop of Milan and as Pope...
State Over Liberty. Bourguiba exploded. He summoned a meeting of the Neo-Destour Party executive, rammed through a vote to ban L'Action. For voting against Bourguiba's wishes, Mohammed Masmoudi, one of the paper's principal shareholders and once Bourguiba's close confidant, was fired...