Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devanter and George Sutherland before him, took advantage of a 1937 judiciary act, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether he did so for his health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote...
That incident made Wal's reputation as an underdog leader and Government headache. Ever since then he has been employed by the unemployed. In 1921 he became head of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, which by last week had accumulated 180,000 members who pay a penny a week dues if they can afford it, and who pay Wal less than $25 a week to keep the Government in a frenzy. He has earned his pay and then some, particularly this winter when, according to last week's figure, the British unemployment total reached a three-year...
...Holiness Pius XI, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Summus Pontifex, 261st Bishop of Rome, Servant of the Servants of God, Head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla...
...Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal offices and appointments technically lapsed after the death of Pius XI. All the Cardinals, even the Penitentiary and the Camerlengo, at once doffed the distinguishing mark of their rank, the short, capelike mantelletta, wearing simply the white mozzetta or small cape...
...virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...