Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting, as both parties do, that many a Roman Catholic priest in Malta told his flock that to vote in a certain way would be a "mortal sin"* (for which absolution would be refused), does this constitute interference by the clergy in political affairs...
...entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama-whose mortal hate and fear of the Pope at Rome caused him to desert the Democratic party in 1928- is a widower. Nevertheless an action for divorce was formally filed against him in Chancery Court at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The charges: desertion and cruelty. The complainant: "Miss Southern Democracy." Excerpts from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank...
...Florentine minds, proverbially wily, Benito Mussolini achieved one of his most remarkable, most ponderable exclamations : "Right, if unaccompanied by Might, is a vain word, and your great Machiavelli said that unarmed prophets perish!'' He concluded with these ringing words : ''Fascist Italy . . . cannot be attacked without mortal risk. Fascist Italy, fully armed, will give [he did not say to whom, meant France] her simple alternative of precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar...
...When Rome threatened a third war, Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started...