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Pope and Premier had thus exchanged blows making their estrangement absolute. But the question arose, "Who counseled His Holiness to flay Fascismo?" For answer observers looked well upon Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, famed Papal Secretary of State. At him a jumpy Protestant might well point a finger and cry, "Papist!" He is of heavy, compact, menacing build, and his great eyebrows have that peculiar upward and outward tilt with which most sculptors have endowed the Prince of Darkness...
...mothers were widely vexed at the thought that they had taught their children a rhyme about a cross put up to honor the onetime Kaiser's mother. Well posted fathers might have explained: "The original Banbury Cross was torn down by the Banbury Puritans in 1610 as a detested Papist symbol...
Dryden's lack of principle, or possibly his indolent disposition led him always to submit to the ruling powers. He was Puritan in his youth, royalist in his manhood, papist in his old age. Yet after all the man was so easily influenced that it was almost impossible for him not to follow the lead of the majority. Whatever may have been his character as a man, certainly as a poet he gave with every advancing year added proof of strength, maturity and nobility. His genius was rather receptive than creative; the seeds that were planted in his mind bore...