Word: haile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain a plenary indulgence by saying the Stations of the Cross, reciting 14 Our-Fathers, Hail-Marys, Glorias and praying for the intention of the Holy Father...
...Hail, hail Oxford...
...good news for Britons came in a speech to the 1912 Club by Sir Henry Page-Croft: "There has been much windy talk that if another war takes place it will 'end civilization.' This of course is sheer nonsense. Even if London were subjected to a pitiless hail of bombs and gas, it is childish to imagine that such frightfulness would be the end of England, much less the end of the British Empire...
Your country, Russia, is the only country which is marching forward." Communist critics hail as Radek's "masterpiece" his editorial, A Lesson In History For The Archbishop of Canterbury in which he sneered: "Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings...
...Proudly We Hail (by Joseph M. Viertel Shapiro; James R. Ullman, producer). Author Shapiro, 21, is the son of the proprietor of the French Casino, a Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents...