Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telegrafo, mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, thumbed down as a "political" Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, nominated as a Pastor Angelicas, predicted in old prophecies, the pious Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal dalla Costa. Since as a rule the Roman Catholic Church prefers to lead opinion rather than follow it, Il Telegrafo's nomination could be considered a death-kiss...
Thousands of seekers after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...
Feild explained and demonstrated with slides the processes involved in Disney's spectacular work in the motion picture field. "My fundamental purpose," Feild said, "is to introduce the more intimate side of Mickey Mouse and his follow-characters...
...stories in Sirocco follow the pattern of those experiences. With superb characterizations, plenty of dash, touches of sympathy, they add up to something more than Hemingway's bloodlettings. Bates writes as movingly about a Fascist woman doctor as about a Loyalist scout, most movingly about humble, non-partisan farmers and fishermen ten years before...
...Conrad's theory that man's history could be written on a postage stamp-he was born; he suffered; he died." No one is sorry that Conrad did not follow his theory. But such pompous chronicles as Salute to Freedom would lend themselves nicely to such condensation...