Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very heavy percentage, for a Catholic population of several hundred millions. (There were more than 175,000 divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports the facts of cases before the Rota. They run about 50-50, rich and poor. So much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon...
...ones: Arthur R. Gould of Maine, Republican, 6 ft. 2 in., healthy and 70; Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, Democrat, able fisherman and breeder of pedigreed hogs; David W. Stewart of Iowa, Republican, onetime Marine, portly, bald and 41; David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Democrat, bachelor, with a deep, rich voice (he had been in the Senate before...
...years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General...
Captain Chevalier will himself play first board his teammates being W. P. Locke '27, B. J. Reines '28, and Herbert Flashman '27. The alternaties for fifth member of the team are George Gravell '28 and F. N. Rich...
...recurrent miracle plays the text has formed but a very small element of the orchestration. In this play the text is less interesting than in some that have preceded. Or it may be obscured by a frequently infelicitous translation which fortunately is covered up to some extent, by the rich heavy, menotenous reading of the mass of the lines: this general tonality perhaps with the exception of the plain song--offstage--is the most effective element in the production...