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...Pope were a civil ruler and there were a conflict, I would go to war against the Pope. The 69th Regiment would ask to be sent over first...
...ogre only to such as Senator Heflin, these statements were applauded by great & good Catholics. They were made last week by the Rev. Francis P. Duffy before the National Republican Club in Manhattan. Father Duffy, no obscure clergyman, was Roman Catholic chaplain of the famed 69th Regiment of New York ("the fighting Irish") during the World War, was advisor to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith in his historic reply to Lawyer Charles C. Marshall (TIME, Apr. 25). Father Duffy also told the Republicans that any Catholic priest talking politics in a pulpit, even though lauding A. E. Smith, would be "trimmed...
...passions of Actress Greta Garbo. She plays the part of Marianne, a little country girl who completely eclipses a courtesan mother by becoming the greatest actress in Paris. But even when bouquets, floral and financial, come raining down around her, she cannot forget Lucien, who, because he deserted his regiment to be near Marianne, has been put into prison...
...mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers whom fame has fled is a fine and comfortable company...
...Conrad, William James, W. H. Hudson, John Galsworthy. In July, 1914, he finished what was to have been his last book, The Good Soldier, joined a Welsh regiment as lieutenant, and went to the front. Returning from the War with health impaired, he wrote two novels in anger which were not published. He intended to write no more. He changed his mind, however, and in 1922 commenced his famed series dealing with England and the War, Some Do Not, No More Parades, and A Man Could Stand Up. The fourth and final novel of this sequence, The Last Post, will...