Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer the Serbian Orthodox Church had a fight on its hands. Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich and his Cabinet negotiated a concordat with the Vatican which would virtually have placed the Roman Catholic Church on equal terms with the well-entrenched...
Contrary to some headlines, this was no mass sherry-sipping party at which girl students indulged in a miniature Roman orgy. About seventy Radcliffe alumni and friends were there, including some of Harvard's best known professors. For this group, twelve girl students were enlisted to serve wine. These students did not imbibe; their's but to stand and wait. A part of the Radcliffe Choral Society which entertained at dinner, however, did receive some of the "alcoholic depressant," as the preacher chose to term good sherry, although certainly not in such quantities as to outrage the memory...
...shall not be forgotten. So on his first return to the U. S. his supporters found it incumbent upon them to keep him in the public eye. His trip from Manila to the White House (to report on Far Eastern affairs) was therefore designed on the order of a Roman triumph...
...doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that Catholics should attend mass, if it is humanly possible, every Sunday and every holy day. Six years ago the Congregation of Sacred Rites ruled that this religious duty cannot be fulfilled by listening to mass by radio. Last week Pope Pius XI found reason to suspend this rule. He granted permission to prelates in Rightist Spain to broadcast mass, so that Catholics in Leftist Spain, where there is no public worship, need not be deprived of religious service...
...Many citizens resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan...