Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Fairfax Harrison, 68, onetime 1913-37) president of Southern Railway Co.; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Railroader Harrison was by avocation a scholar who: 1) researched U. S. racehorse genealogies; 2) published, under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer," a book Roman Farm Management, translations of agricultural commentaries by Vergil, Varro, Cato...
Some spectators may have been amused by the WPA's sponsorship of a play exalting a Roman hero who spits on the common people. But none could deny that this drama of a patrician banished from Rome for not truckling to the plebs, and joining with his former enemies to wreck his own country, builds up in massive blocks of action. And none could deny that at least once-when the hero's mother comes to plead with him to spare his native Rome-the drama unfolds an intensely human scene...
...Protestants. Christian principles and German liberties depend on an independent Church, holding to dogmatic beliefs diametrically opposed to the religious creed of Nazidom. It is interesting to note that the liberal elements both in the Church and State have completely succumbed to political pressure, and that only the Roman Catholic and "Confessional" Churches, firm in their convictions, remain in open conflict with the government. The Christian Church, claiming interest in the whole life of the individual, is necessarily interested in politics, and cannot confine itself to "spiritual" duties. Pastor Niemoeller's trial may well determine whether Christians are willing...
...sticky July day last year this letter arrived at Cavalcade's Fleet Street office from Hove, Sussex: Wherever the Roman Catholic Church was founded, its behaviour during the last few years has been no recommendation, for they evidently show their Christianity by massacre and slaughter both of defenceless mothers, and their own people, as seen in Abyssinia, Ireland and Spain. I would rather be a Moslem...
...Before a Roman Catholic woman gets her to a nunnery, she must take counsel with the superior of the convent she has chosen. If she appears to have a true vocation, she is admitted to the sisterhood as a postulant, to undergo at least three months of religious life before being professed as a novice. Last week in San Antonio, Tex., when five postulants entered the convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament-a teaching order which has labored ably in the U. S. since 1853-they made news because: 1) they were a mother and four daughters...