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...accommodate the pious duck hunters of Albuquerque, N. Mex., who foray before dawn, Father Thomas H. Bortell of San Felipe de Neri Church there, announced last week that special mass would be celebrated at 4:30 a. m. on All Saints' Day and Sundays during the duck season. Worshippers were invited to appear in gunning togs...
From very early times the visible remains of the vast empires that centered between the Tigris and Euphrates have been a cause for wonder to the antiquarian--great rock carvings and huge mounds, clearly the sites of deserted cities, had been pious dissertations by travelers even before the time of Marco Polo...
...land from Uncas,* friendly Pequod who later organized the Mohegans (an offshoot of the Mohicans), became the No. i sachem of Connecticut. In 1659 he sold the English for ?70 nine sq. mi. for the settlement of Norwich. He fought with them against other Indian tribes, horrified pious colonists with ruthless decapitation of his enemies. In 1682 Norwich deeded back to Uncas and "his heirs forever" some 200 acres of land on the edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase. On this land Uncas was supposed to have been buried along with his grandson...
...Rich, pious and a man of his solemn word is the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett. Last July he said unto Canadians that if they would return his Conservative Party victorious to Parliament then verily, verily he would build a great tariff wall around the Dominion and behind it there would be plenty of new jobs for Canada's 117,000 unemployed. As everyone knows, it came to pass that Mr. Bennett is now Prime Minister with a clear majority over the Liberal opposition. One day last week he built his Great Wall. In British nations (each Dominion...
...course in "Education and International Problems and Values" to promote an understanding of the methods of obtaining world peace. And on the heels of this comes the announcement that several American diplomats are convinced that another European war is brewing. They attempt to soften these dire prognostications with the pious opinion that the United States will never be drawn into such a conflict excepting to "protect her honor...