Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detective-story writer (The Viaduct Murder), for twelve years Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, is Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 51, one of England's three most urbane and influential Catholic priests.* Published in the U. S. this week was Monsignor Knox's latest book, Let Dons Delight.†. To many a reader, Catholic and non-Catholic, this work will bring delight. To others, including many U. S. Catholics who find it difficult to comprehend the lightheartedness and apparent irreverence of their European coreligionists, the book will be shocking...
...Let Dons Delight is a series of dialogues among imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into its meeting. The Committee tolerantly let them heckle. The invaders shouted denunciations of Jews and praise of Hitler, tossed around anti-Semitic pamphlets and stickers...
...Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
...Terror, their Pepysian observations on political and social intrigue among the French upper crust. Even his enemies might enjoy Gouverneur Morris' formal candor in describing his tempestuous affair with the Comtesse de Flauhaut ("As I am heavy and plagued with a Head Ache Madame will not let me give her Pleasure, as it may injure my Health. This is Kind...