Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's tremendous gambling industry, which breathed easier when pious, roulette-hating Eduardo Gomes lost his campaign for the presidency, had new cause for jitters. Last week Rio's Cardinal-designate Dom Jaime de Barros Camara was out to drive the croupier from the casino...
Originator of the jogo do bicho was one Baron Drummond, a bluff, bawdy, Brazilian-born Englishman, to whom Emperor Dom Pedro II gave a title and the concession to the Rio zoo. To popularize the zoo, the Baron encouraged visitors to guess the identity of an animal concealed behind a curtain, paid off to winners. In time the guessing game became a tremendously popular numbers game, with different numbers for 25 Brazilian beasts...
...first time Dom Carlos Duarte da Costa, onetime Bishop of Botucatu in Sao Paulo, had been in his church's black books. In 1934, he publicly refused to follow a papal nunciate's political instructions. He was thereupon quietly retired, given the honorary title of Bishop of Maura, no diocese. From the outside, Duarte took an increasingly critical view of what he considered his church's political leanings. He became increasingly outspoken and unpopular with his superiors...
Last week Dom Carlos, calling himself "Bishop of Rio de Janeiro," told reporters that he hopes soon to ordain ten married lawyers and professional men as priests in his new church...
Last week in Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Unions), the Soviet Government put 15 Polish politicians and under ground fighters on trial (the 16th of the famed "16 Poles" was ill). The ensuing stream of confessions, self -denunciations and one heroic defense made the non-Communist world remember the tragic, psychopathic exhibitions at the ill-famed purge trials of 1937. Three anti-Soviet Poles in London, reading accounts of last week's testimony, solemnly averred that their compatriots in Moscow must have been doped. Often the exiled London Polish Government, rather than the Poles in the courtroom...