Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find on the one hand," reported the resolutions committee at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver last fortnight, "the dominating and fulminating Caesar of the C. I. O. marching his Roman legions to the White House with bludgeoning threats, while on the other hand we find the Machiavelli of the same C. I. O. pursuing the methods typical of that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with...
Before a big bonfire on Duquesne University's campus ("the Bluff") in Pittsburgh fortnight ago, stocky, fortyish Rev. Thomas R. Jones danced in Roman collar and black hat. To 2.000 Duquesne students gathered to warm up for next day's football game with arch-rival University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Professor Jones roared: "Duquesne's football players will be out there fighting because they love their school. The Pitt team will be out there fighting, too, but only for their weekly pay checks...
...cities which occasionally celebrate the memories of their pioneers, not many dedicate a day every year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase...
...squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore. Author Jones's was the more tricked'-out in period furbelows; Author Strong's more sober-minded version was the better...
...Egypt is suggested by two tomb reliefs in painted limestone and a 12th century dynasty head in red granite. Graeco Roman painting is well shown by three portraits of the second and third centuries from the Fayoum in North Africa