Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time; at the moment there is danger that pure learning may outstrip the liberal arts because of Mr. Conant's emphasis on research work. But as learning makes the life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college is no more than the hors d'oeuvres. Then, professional training remains for post-graduate work, with the college viewpoint left unclouded by "the dull glasses of immediate utility." The houses and tutorial system make healthy student life an everyday reality...
...Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later...
...Mike") Conner was not only a triumph for Senator Harrison and the New Deal, but also a thoroughgoing rebuke to junior Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who had vented his spite against the senior Senator by campaigning for Conner. Theme of all 15 speakers at a Harrison victory feast in Jackson: "Now that we've licked Bilbo, we'll throw him into the Gulf four years from...
...prophecy by President George Berry: "There will be a new political alignment before the 1940 election. I conceive it important that we who are opposed to the return of reaction . . . should prepare ourselves to meet the inevitable and not again accept crumbs from the table but participate in the feast that has to do with the permanent establish ment of a liberal party, if necessary, in the United States in 1940." Should such a third party, the lifelong dream of many a U. S. liberal, materialize, it would be a tall feather in the miner's cap of John...
Last week on the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, a little group of devout U. S. Anglo-Catholics gathered on Memorial Drive by the River Charles in Cambridge, Mass. There for a decade a Romanesque monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles...