Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pius also made Nazis squirm on the subject of Poland: "The blood of countless human beings, even noncombatants, raises a piteous dirge over a nation such as our dear Poland, which, for its fidelity to the church, for its services in the defense of Christian civilization, written in indelible characters in the annals of history, has a right to the generous and brotherly sympathy of the whole world, while it awaits . . . the hour of a resurrection in harmony with the principles of justice and true peace...
Proving as great an improviser as he was once an actor, he has turned the theatre into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the street. Sang out Barrymore: "I hope they get to the fire in time." Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give...
...English translation by Monsignor Patrick Hurley of the Papal Secretariat of State, the encyclical was a lofty and solemn statement of Christian, rather than exclusively Catholic, doctrines for a world beset with "difficulties, anxieties and trials." He mentioned by name only two nations, "our dear Italy" and "our dear Poland." The great body of his encyclical Pius XII devoted to an examination of the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the present day," and of two "errors" in particular which menace "the peaceful intercourse of peoples...
Last week the London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I have 4d. and Colin only has 2d." A small girl: "The lady's little girl is three weeks older than me, but I'm bigger. ... She says I talk funny. I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too. Tell Dad to look...
...anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, invited "Dear Will" to return to Washington, finally got him back...