Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driven from his home or church in Italy last week. To dramatize the passive struggle of the Church, Pius XI suspended all open air religious services and processions. Thus on Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
...Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this Cantonese clique venerable Tang Shao...
...moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow, a Thomas Lament, a Herbert Hoover or an Al Smith...
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with...