Word: ests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portugal, terrified villagers rushed through the streets shouting "0 firn do mundo!" (the end of the world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor...
...People say the Catholic religion is no longer the Catholic religion, but is politics, and this pretext is taken to justify a persecution. . . . This is the same accusation made against Jesus Christ when he was dragged before Pontius Pilate. . . . We can reply as Jesus Christ did . . . Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo [My kingdom is not of this world]. We are not in politics. We live and work not for politics but to render testimony to the truth and teach the truth-truth that the world appreciates so little and for which it cares so little...
...program: Three Chorales J. S. Bach Cantata 122; Das neugeborne Kindelein J. S. Bach Noel; Un enfant nous est ne Eustache du Caurroy Kyrie French, XV Century Noel; Sors de ton lit pare Eustache du Caurroy Four Christmas Carols Gustav Holst Fantasia on Christmas Carols Vaughan Williams
...began calling him "Our Sun." This caught on in the Soviet Union from coast to coast. Like Louis XIV of France, Le RoiSoleil ("The Sun King"), Dictator Stalin is the actual Sun around which Communist constellations revolve, might say truly if he liked "L'etat c'est moi." One day last week Sun Stalin stood refulgent atop the Red Square tomb of Lenin and more than 1,750,000 Soviet citizens marched past him carrying flags and banners. Meanwhile, Madrid had devoted the whole week to Leftist Spain's celebration of the 20th anniversary of Russia...
When the late Pope Benedict XV died, Correspondent Morgan had entered the death chamber by permission and kissed the slippered foot of the late Pontiff even before the fact of Death, ascertained by physicians, was officially certified by Cardinal Gasparri and made known with the words "Vere papa mortuus est." With his inquisitive yet reverent eyes. Observer Morgan noted that the Cardinal did not observe the quaint Papal ceremony for determining Death once used but since fallen into disuse: "The ceremony consisted in tapping the Pope on the forehead with a small silver hammer and calling him by his first...