Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etcher to the anger and disgust shown in a portfolio to be exhibited early this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter of 1933-34, spent three and a half months in a Nazi political prison on a charge of high treason...
...Pope is Wrong. Dr. Ley did not forget that he was addressing, among other German workers, many more or less devout Catholics, all of whom know that Pope Pius XI has taken the strongest stand against anti-Semitism and inferentially against Naziism (TIME, Aug. 14). Attacking His Holiness directly, Labor Front Ley blasphemed: "The Pope is wrong because he recognizes only one Catholic race. But Almighty God was not so papal as the Pope. He made differences among races! There are positive and negative elements in the human race and the negative can exist only as parasites?as witness...
Colonel Ximenes, commander of the Barcelona Civil Guard, fights alongside the anarchists he had formerly imprisoned, remains a devout Catholic who prays in churches his comrades have burned...
...Governor Murphy is a devout Catholic, attends Mass regularly. Even his critics give him credit for broad tolerance...
...neice, and has four children, the youngest a debutante. He became an instructor in History here in 1902, and a professor in 1918. From nothing he made History 1 into a top rank course, though he devotes himself more particularly to the Spanish Empire and Tudor England. A devout Anglophile, he reigns over his classes and masters Eliot House with pomp rivalling Philip II or Henry VIII...