Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less pleased was she by another wellwisher, who offered to buy one of the casualties, a slightly damaged bust of Lucretia Mott, for his rock garden, twine a vine over its missing ear. "Of all the insolence!" sniffed Mrs. Johnson. "Can you imagine my Lucretia in a rock garden...
...potential voters, Mickie no longer offers such flimsy reason for election as changing the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square. Morals are still his main plank, but after last year's condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
...Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example, Jesus' parable of the houses built on sand and on rock, Mile Desgrées du Lou rolls her eyes, waves her arms, twists and sways like.a ballet dancer. When Père Jousse lectures, 200 people watch goggle-eyed: doctors, spiritualists, philologists, ballet students, poets (among them Paul Valery)-and two Jesuit theologians, hawklike for heresies...
...other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic...