Word: magnus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beside himself last week because a Polish Jew, once a resident of Germany, had put two bullets into Ernst vom Rath, third secretary to the Germany Embassy in Paris. Herr Hitler immediately sent his personal physician, Dr. Brandt, to Paris accompanied by the eminent German specialist, Professor Georg Magnus of the university at Munich...
Extravagant admirers of Britain's skittish Eric Linklater have not hesitated to compare him to Aristophanes. Author Linklater's picaresque, satirical novels (Juan in America, Magnus Merriman et al.) were full of bawdy humor and a blithe unconcern for English notions of propriety. But last week, when he published a new-fashioned novelist's version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, critics concluded that the Scot was no match for the Greek on his own ground...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...
...took almost a regiment of Marines to overcome the opposition to Dr. Ham's appointment. He personally was under no harsh scrutiny. He had taught in Woman's College of Albertus Magnus and had faced co-eds at the Universities of California and Washington. It was just that under woman's hands, notably those of retiring 74-year-old President Mary Emma Wooley, Mt. Holyoke had grown to an eight-and-a-half million endowment. During her 37-year administration, enrollment has doubled, the faculty quadrupled...
Shortly after dawn on Sunday in Manila, 500,000 Catholics on the Luneta attended mass, celebrated by Legate Dougherty who appeared as a choir sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest), In the afternoon, soldiers, prelates, priests, government officials, members of the Philippines National Assembly and men, women and children formed in a long liturgical procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan...