Word: inquisitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The great social and religious forces now interacting and savagely opposed were first generated in the 16th century when Spain overthrew the pagan empire in Mexico, imported the Catholic Church, and set up in Mexico City an inquisition to extirpate such beliefs as that in Mexitl.
Of more immediate interest than the "power trust" now is the elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another...
Whatever the results of the present inquisition, the condition of the Reading Period immediately preceding are ample proof of the experiment's soundness. Whether the marks show it or not, there is scarcely any denying the fact that the respite from lectures has brought increased industry, interest, over-long assignments...
George Bernard Shaw, irate because Dean William Ralph Inge described Shaw's Saint Joan an apology for the Inquisition, screamed rudely back:
Mr. Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but...