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...Pikeville. A wide-eyed, little girl and a strapping, handsome-though-freckled lad in his teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told the press: "While I did not base my campaign on vindication and sympathy - that was proved two years ago by the re-election of Mr. Langley - at the same time I feel that it is a vindication of us. I based my campaign...
...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...
Before Columbus discovered America, long before Martin Luther was born, the fire had done its work, which was to burn to death Jan Hus (July 6, 1415). It was not the fire that made Hus a religious hero of Protestantism and a national hero of the country now known as Czecho-Slovakia; but such he became...
...year 1415, Emperor Sigismund, the perfidious ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the last of the Luxemburg dynasty, had burned at the stake one John Hus, protestant against the Catholic Church (he is alleged to have intimated that the Antichrist might be found at Rome), and a hero of Bohemia...
Last week, on the 510th anniversary of John Hus's death, Czecho-Slovakia celebrated her first "Nation Day" by commemmorating Hus. Up went the Hussite flag over the Presidential Castle and loud and strong were the cries from Rome. The Papal Nuncio was recalled and the Czecho-Slovak Minister to the Holy See was ordered to return to Prague. The situation had the earmarks of a first-class...