Word: credos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe...
...think some of the arguments used in your Credo justifying the isolationist stand deserve to be answered from the opposite viewpoint...
...Penrose, who came from Good Time Buck Devlin's Eighth Ward, was that handsome that doors opened of them selves when he passed a lady's house (Mr. Devlin's own words-from Walter Daven port's Power and Glory). Penrose also had a simple credo: "The people will stand anything from a politician who refrains from annoying them." Boss Penrose, one of whose shoes was laced with a corset-string the day he met Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh,* and for the perpetuation...
Miss Perkins' rendering of the opening sentence of the Nicene Creed: Credo in unum Deum, Patrem I believe in one God. the Father omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, all mighty, maker of heaven and earth, -visibilium omnium et invisibilium. of visible things all and of invisible...
...architects (who appropriately had the ground floor) merely tiled the walls with framed photographs of colonial, baroque, gothic and romanesque structures-all built in the U. S. since 1900. Upstairs, modernists ran hog-wild. Their slick, streamlined exhibit had models of their buildings and shrewd camera shots, featured a credo that made traditionalists sputter. Sample sputter-causer: "The heritage of our generation is the accumulated rubbish of a century of fake fronts...