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...saying during the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire was: Qui mange du Pape en meurt ("Who eats of the Pope, dies of it") Today most Catholics interpret "die" as "die spiritually...
...which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...
...Tunisia, Algeria and French Morocco widespread but small-scale native uprisings and riots (TIME, Nov. 1) last week kept the Colonial Ministry in Paris on the qui vive. General Charles Nogues, the French Resident General of French Morocco, found it necessary to send troops for the first time in history into the Medina or Moslem quarter of Fez. Four hundred natives were arrested...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister can be sure the next ring on his telephone may not mean promotion, transfer or eclipse...