Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good but undistinguished student at Fordham, a Jesuit college but no seminary. He wrote poetry, excelled in Latin, helped build a wireless set as a member of the Secchi Scientific Society. He was a careful dresser, and liked convivial company...
...document, the first detailed account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, written by one of the survivors, the Rev. John A. Siemes, S.J., professor of modern philosophy at Tokyo's Catholic University. Father Siemes, who was born 39 years ago in Germany, sent his impressions to the magazine Jesuit Missions...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, 74, lone Jesuit in the College of Cardinals who last April sweetly reasoned into surrender* all Axis forces in & about his Archbishopric of Genoa; of a heart attack; in Genoa...
...Said German Ernst Haeckel: "Not even the clearest and most precise logic makes a man a match for a Jesuit...
...skewered a refined rogues' gallery of Mayfair cads and bounders. Most critics found these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...