Word: fontes
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...Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico...
...Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan is faced with the eventual...
...water was from the River Jordan. The gold font had been conveyed from Windsor Castle. The royal organist and choir boys donned their crimson and gold robes at St. James's Palace before hastening over. The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
...Synthol." The Du Font interests would manufacture, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. distribute, a new synthetic motor fuel to be called "synthol," made from coal, petroleum or lignite. To burn synthol, a new automobile motor had been devised, the most powerful of its size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said...
...font at which George was said to have been baptized...