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...nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...
...then Bishop of Tabasco. He returned last year and joined with Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores to make a deal with the then President Emilio Fortes Gil whereby the law was conveniently relaxed. Since then the State has ceased to fret the Church, the Church the State. Meanwhile U. S. Protestant denominations, notably Methodists and Presbyterians, had been rushing into the religiously roiled country, have been vigorously evangelizing with prayerbook and purse. There is now a Methodist Church of Mexico...
...arms of Dunster's own college. Magdalene College of Cambridge, consists of "Quarterly per pale indented or and azure on a bend of the second between two eagles displayed or a fret between two martlets of the last. Supporters, two antelopes gules horned, chained, and collared, or Motto, 'Guarde...
...little while to love and rave And fret and sweat and fear and hope in; A little while to bathe and shave And keep the organism open- Then silence under reeds and roses, And no more blowing of our noses...
...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...