Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that immense moral force, the Catholic Church. Do not hesitate to act freely. The anticlericalism manifested in France is only superficial. We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!" No sooner was Osservatore Romano off the press than the French Embassy at Vatican City rang up Paris, was put through to the Elysee. Soon in Rome a big, French-nosed Renault sped from Embassy to Vatican. In the name of France an angry Frenchman made formal demand upon the Pontifical Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, for complete retraction of Osservatore's story. "Mondieul", shrugged...
Brazil, already troubled with a minor insurrection in the state of Parahyba (TIME, Aug. 11, 18), rang with rumors last week of an impending revolution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Details were not forthcoming. The Brazilian Embassy in Washington, the Brazilian foreign minister, President Washington Luis united in an almost hysterical desire to quash reports. Said the President's secretary, Senhor Mendes Goncalves: "His Excellency authorizes me to state that the situation of Brazil is at present as it has been in recent times, of the most perfect economical, political and financial order...
...racing for Alexandria from cruising spots in the Aegean Sea. But Mr. MacDonald said that "His Majesty's Government is determined not to inter- vene in the purely internal affairs of Egypt," and all present understood what he meant. For minutes after this popular announcement the House of Commons rang with cheers...
...call upon high heaven to witness the absence of my desire to defeat the Labor Government but ..." and he trailed off into ambiguous remarks. The bell for division (voting), which rings three times, rang once, twice, and M. P.'s began to trickle into the division lobbies. At this moment, barely ahead of the third bell, up sneaked some 140 Conservatives by a backstair's route to vote...
...four and a half years. The outside world paid little attention last week to what was the passing of actually the last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...