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...great Irishman. Many of his countrymen believe him to be so and periodically ask the British government to yield custody of his remains, which lie in quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles was to be landed after him but the vessel was intercepted by British warships; Casement was spotted by a farm girl and captured...
...looked suddenly sincere. "I'm not going to be falsely modest. All right? I've been nominated for the Academy Award eight times, and won it three times, for Easter Parade, American in Paris, and Merry Wives of Windsor...
Mother, can I have a new dress for Easter...
...Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, No. 1 U.S. Catholic-missions official, gave the keynote speech ("The future harmony on the organ of humanity will be played on the black keys of Africa"), but the meeting's impetus came from an encyclical issued last Easter by Pope Pius XII, in which he warned that "atheistic materialism has spread its virus of division through various regions of Africa." At least one speaker, Father J. Alfred Richard of the White Fathers, linked Communism with the spread of Islam. Communists seek to weaken a powerful enemy, Christianity, said Father Richard, by fostering the spread...
...Kiss from Achille. Lauro began the Sardinian campaign for his Monarchist candidates by doling out 10,000 Easter eggs and 10,000 parcels of toys. These were followed by 10,000 layettes, 500,000 key cases, 100,000 aprons bearing the rampant lion of the Popular Monarchist Party, and countless babies' bibs inscribed "A Kiss from Lauro." (Of the 800 babies born in Sardinia in the past two months, 103 were christened Achille...