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...greater scandal to the faithful was the fact that they had taken the Body of Christ, perhaps impiously thrown it away. It is mortal sin for anyone but a priest or deacon even to touch the Host. Desecrated, St. Patrick's high altar could not be used for mass last week until a public service of reparation was performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vandal Scandal | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...appoint some lesser man to fill the place vacated by Chautemps. Whether or not he will be able to preserve the present government it is impossible to predict, for French domestic politics change with mercurial rapidity, and to chart their course in advance hardly falls within the powers of mortal man. NEMO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...Magnificent, Incredible Carnegie), the melodies of the city desk still throb inside his head, with the result that Author Winkler's journalese is indistinguishable from the guarded patois written in Hearstpapers all over the U. S. In The First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self-mastery of cows subdued the demon in his own breast. He passed hours photographing his placid animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Banker Bogey | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire; but it does not have burn of straight alcohol; there is an aroma, a purging afterglow, and a solid, settled feeling which delves down to the soles of one's feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Shushed | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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