Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
...elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm the election of the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, rector of Washington's Epiphany. Dr. Phillips is a liberal evangelical, is a compromise president, for he is pleasing to the liberal (quasi-Roman) high church & to the evangelical (Methodistic) low church. When it came time to take up the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of prayer, a bad-taste controversy loomed. High churchmen did not want the articles; low churchmen wanted them, because their inclusion prevented even the kinship of resemblance...
...Roman Literature from 150 to 100 B. C." Professor Moore, Sever...
...Academy, for it brought the appointment in 1817 of Major Thayer as superintendent, and an increase of the enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master issued precepts of education that were long and thoroughly successful. His Roman sternness lost the Academy one type of genius, of Edgar Allen Poe was dismissed after eight months of stormy revolt; but under Major Thayer, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee learned lessons that helped at least the latter to his military ascendancy...
...Roman Comedy". Professor C. H. Moore, Sever...