Word: consulships
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...Francis of Assisi. Economy, piety, charity, simplicity, loyalty-these, and other bulking labels which people have tagged onto the man Francis, and which tradition stipulates for the order of Friars which he founded, appealed to Benito Mussolini as virtues that would well become the nation of Italy in his consulship. He proclaimed* St. Francis the patron saint of Fascism, and appointed the year from September, 1926 to September, 1927 as a year, of "Franciscanism." There was an imposing torchlight procession at Assisi and many a high mass in the ravaged old Church of the Aracoeli. The King dedicated...
During the afternoon the Bruces departed on a brief preliminary honeymoon?brief because four days later they had to sail for Rome, where Mr. Bruce has a vice-consulship at $2,500 a year awaiting...
...when the chief executive of such a government as that of the American nation leans too heavily toward either side of a situation which at best is a very difficult one can sanely be afraid lest that accurate balance between state and central government is truly one with "the consulship of Manlius...
...call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers' books as a boy in snug New England, he connected himself with the Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting a reliable compendium of Mayan culture-Author Willard is himself an accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then...
...neither of these institutions has suffered as has Adrian College. There in Michigan the Kappa Kappa Gamma girls have really suffered. For spring and one quart of local indiscretion--evidently not born with them in the consulship of Metellus as was the wiser wine of Horace--have forced from their maiden lips sincere and righteous words of condemnation. Ten live men and a bottle of rum were too much for Kappa Kappa Gamma--and the girls reported to the president--thus...