Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because, in the loneliness of Power, Il Duce admits no other mortal to close friendship he spends most of his evenings alone, finds distraction, when not working, in his violin and in censoring cinemas. Came news last week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together...
...indicated by the pronunciation, the correct spelling of this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...until today we find the Church fighting for its own inherent enemy, fighting the social doctrines of Karl Marx, "the last of the schoolmen," as Tawney puts it. The Catholic Church may be eternal, but its social philosophy is a part of the prevailing cultural organism and is as mortal as is that culture. TERTIUS...
Never before this season has the team worked together as it did last Saturday. Everything seemed to click, and the thought of Well's two passes early in the game kept the Eli secondaries in mortal terror all afternoon. The verdict of the stands with regard to the team, the coaches and Danny Wells was "All is forgiven" and critics paid high tribute to the eleven which has been the favorite object of censure this fall...
...BEGINNING OF A MORTAL-Max Miller-Dutton ($2.50). The author of a book about his job (I Cover the Waterfront ) now writes a book about his youth...