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Santayana's Spark Sirs: As TIME's review of copious The Last Puritan (Feb. 3, p. 75) was characteristically pithy and succinct, so TIME-worthy were the picture-cover of the author and the intimate comments anent his banker-build and the routine of his days on that philosophers' Olympus where years ago he found his peace...
Around to the Foreign Office whizzed British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to demand some sort of crackdown upon the Paris independent moderate weekly Gringoire for headlining SHOULD ENGLAND BE REDUCED TO SLAVERY? Affirming, with copious historical instances of perfidy, that England should. Gringoire concluded: "British friendship is the most cruel gift the gods could give a people...
...forbade plural marriage in the Manifesto of 1890, the penalty for getting caught is excommunication. Mormon officials still find it necessary to deplore polygamy publicly. But a monthly magazine called Truth, published in Salt Lake City, is a spirited defender of the abandoned practice, bolstered with copious quotations from Mormon law, Mormon writ and the sayings of the founders...
...until 1821 were the copious notes taken by Delegate Robert Yates of New York on the Convention's debates published. In 1841 a detailed Convention journal kept by scholarly James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," was published. Only from these notes, the meagre official journal and a smattering set down by other delegates, have judges and scholars learned what the Fathers thought & said while they were piecing together their great patchwork of compromises...
...swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power of the Inquisition, the fat Monk Hilarius manages to eke out the monastic rule with copious drams and frequent visits to his plump doxy, who has borne him four sons. To this paganish priest comes young Soldier Pedro, with his belly full of fighting but sadly in need of food and drink...