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...Aglipay, whose Independent Church now claims 4,000,000 members, is generally credited with about 1,000,000. Two years ago Aglipay did almost as well as Aguinaldo in the Presidential campaign in which Manuel Quezon swamped them both. Before the Eucharistic Congress opened, Aglipay sought an injunction to restrain the Commonwealth from issuing postage stamps commemorating the Congress. Failing, he kept out of sight last week and other Aglipayans did nothing to mar the pious occasion. Absent also, for apparently mixed reasons, was President Quezon. Four years ago Quezon was a Mason, an anti-Catholic. Ailing of tuberculosis...
...racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...
...left of the door, Alberich's hand reaches for the Rhine gold, while the hands of the Rhine Maidens attempt to restrain him. At the right is the curse of the Ring, the mailed fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword, which symbolizes the threat of destruction with fire and sword by those who wield the power of the Ring...
...Vatican prelates ever discussed Father Coughlin with me. . . . I never said the Holy See fully approved of Father Coughlin's activities. I had no occasion to say that. But as the Vatican does not find fault, we can assume everything is hunkydory. There will be nothing done to restrain Father Coughlin's activities...
They were away down the last 15-minute straightaway. The excited crowd could hardly restrain its cheers. Typster Saksvig had fallen back, but between Blackamoor Peters and Italian Tangora, both sweating in rivulets, the score board showed a dead heat. Tangora was a few words ahead but he had more penalties scored against...