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...this route, His Highness was informed, seven Italian guides and a priest ascended the Matterhorn in honor of a Catholic "Holy Year" (1901), Pious, they planted a cross and celebrated Mass on the Hag's topmost excrescence (14,780 feet). Intrigued, Prince Chichibu snap-shotted the spot on which was performed this (to him) heathen act of faith...
Thus with pious invocation Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera formally proclaimed last week that a plebiscite would at once be held throughout Spain to determine whether the people desire to elect a Cortes* (Parliament) or to continue under the De Rivera dictature. Despatches gave the impression that the whole machinery of the Patriotic Union, a party formed by the Dictator, will be used to drum up plebiscite votes for the continuance of the present regime...
...ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied him with his heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield; and some people think that Author Burke overdoes the seamy side of things. Yet even in a seam...
...Gladstone founded a great tradition, since observed by many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak a language of the highest and strictest principle and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased in number. He has soaked Texas evangelical prospects in a religious fervor approaching fanaticism. Dr. Norris drew a pistol; shot. Mr. Chipps...