Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are the terms of this avowedly secret treaty? The signatory powers contented themselves with a cryptic announcement: "The Treaty will be made public when it is registered with the League of Nations," an event which may perhaps be delayed indefinitely.
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. . . . Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority...
Jim's Talk. The essence of Fergusonism is good, vigorous home-and-family blather, the kind of thing a contented Americano is supposed to shout in at the wife while he is shaving in the bathroom and she is trying to sneak in another snooze. Jim can talk to...
Of all the birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman...
It was an advertisement, of course, for the Saturday Evening Post. Readers ascertained on closer scrutiny that Mr. Rogers was permitting this journal to publish a series of open epistles indited by him to Calvin Coolidge. He had never, he declared, talked to the President. Indeed, the first letter began...