Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the Olympic Games were over last year. Dictator Hitler got down in earnest to a rigorous anti-Catholic campaign. Catholic confessional schools were suppressed at Württemberg, in the Saar, in the Palatinate, and a State Youth Law suppressed surviving Catholic Youth organizations by ordering all children to join the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth...
...President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators to give him a vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would resign forthwith, Arturo Illas triumphantly boomed that he would do nothing of the kind. Out in high dudgeon strode just enough Senators to forestall a quorum, leaving a docket choked with 600-odd bills including preparations for Cuba's forthcoming Constituent Assembly...
Editorials in the Catholic press are, of course, invariably uplifting. Headlined "Open Letter to Young Couples Riding Out for the Evening," most earnest front-page appeal in the collection at Rochester last week was in the current Queen's Work of St. Louis: "It's a beautiful thing to realize that two young Catholics like you are together. . . . You are bearing Christ with you, as you know, to your dance, the theatre, the movie, your club, the restaurant where you eat and drink, among your friends, into the car that whisks you out into the country...
...audience of the world's great. Cosmo Gordon Lang achieved the biggest attainable goal of a British prelate. He crowned a King and with holy oil anointed him a demi-priest in God's service. And it was a King of whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped Archbishop of York, plump William...
...Washington's northwest side, American University has ever since been trying to live up to its imposing name. To most Washingtonians it is merely a trim collection of white buildings. Students of the social sciences know and respect its School of Public Affairs and its earnest Graduate School. To diplomatic Washington, however, American University is notable as the school where Ellery Cory Stowell teaches international...