Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Abbe pointed out the difficulty of understanding in this country, where toleration has been known so long, the Church and State relations and especially the present attitude of intolerance, which is largely due to the absence of a Supreme Court, which has powers to check the government...
...Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been known primarily as a rough and ready member of the Church, ever willing to mingle with the poorest of the slums, without family influence at court, and accustomed to meet all comers in religious controversy in the great meetings in Victoria Park. But suddenly, in 1901, he was raised to a position second in importance only to the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York. His notification came while he was on his way to a big workingmen's meeting...
Appleton, H S, Apley Court...
...wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics out of court. Such phrases as "critical ephemeridae", "there is a great deal of nonsense written", are likely to put the reader out of sympathy with the writter, who has the whole field to himself; the other fellow cannot answer back. But Mr. Simonson is very happy in such phrases as these: "Holbein...
...sale for Harvard graduates will be held in Boston next Tuesday from 12 to 2 o'clock at the former quarters of the Beacon Trust Company, Court and Washington streets...