Word: profess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude is no more comforting than the "Tatler's" ridiculous rating of debs for their popularity and family. The one can be overlooked as the attempt at sensation by a journalistic outsider. The other strikes a little closer home as the padded brick of some with whom we profess acquaintance...
...Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, are of every color from coal black through tawny brown to olive, include many non-Afric races. Centuries ago scornful Arabs nicknamed them Abyssinians ("mixed peoples"). Today members of the Royal House are strongly Semitized, claim descent from Hebrew King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, profess the religion of Coptic Christianity, acknowledge as their pope the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria...
Article XXXVIII. The King may not profess any other religion than the Orthodox religion. Exception is made for the present King. (The "present King" meant was King Ferdinand, father of Boris, who was reigning in Bulgaria when the Constitution was last revised in 1911. Ex-King Ferdinand, who abdicated in 1918, has always remained Roman Catholic...
...inevitable, but we doubt it. And above all it appears to us strange that a paper, as widely read as the CRIMSON presumably is should have taken such an attitude. Upon slim and ludicrous grounds they do everything in their power to turn people against the House Plan They profess to be anxious that it get off to a good start, but pour scathing criticism upon it calculated to win it disapproval...
...Paris last week the somewhat crushing replies of Germany, Italy and Britain merely caused elastic M. Briand to bounce with animation, like the big and roly-poly diplomatic rubber ball that he is. Professing to be "greatly encouraged" that all the Powers except Britain profess "eagerness" to continue discussion of his scheme, he showed reporters a sheaf of 100% favorable replies from such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace...