Word: pater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...
...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...
Like many an oldster, Logan Pearsall Smith is convinced that the younger generation (including practically everybody since Pater) is damned. Bad writers because of their "need for money, and plenty of it," they will never enter Author Smith's literary heaven. Their one hope of Grace, he pronounces, is to become expatriates...
...used by Catholics today, a Rosary is a string of beads to which is attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...Dred Scott, Monopoly, Eugene V. Debs and Prohibition throw into relief the development and processes of government. These Messrs. Cummings & McFarland highlight. Emphasis and appreciable New Deal bias is placed on references by Presidents and great U. S. legalists to the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Associate Justice William Pater son: "The Constitution has been considered an accommodating system." (1796) Senator John Breckinridge: "Is it not truly astonishing that the Constitution, in its abundant care to define the powers of each department, should have omitted so important a power as that of the courts to nullify...