Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriot. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, Alabama's curious senior Senator, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, advertised a Protestant rally backed "by the Ku Klux Klan and other patriots," to be held June 17 in Hurstsville, just outside the Albany city limits. Senator Heflin promised to heffle; admission...
...wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were dictated from Rome...
...Finance Committee of General Motors Corpn., is another new A. A. P. A. director. Returning from Europe, he found letters from many a Prohibitionist enquiring why he opposed them. He singled out Patrick H. Callahan, a Kentucky varnish-maker (Louisville), a boss Democrat and, like Mr. Raskob, Roman Catholic, for reply...
Lynn Harold Hough, when he retired from the ministry of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, attended a dinner given in his honor. At this dinner there were present a rabbi, Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth-El, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Very Rev. Father John Patrick McNichols, president of the Catholic University of Detroit Father McNichols praised the Methodist preacher in a short speech; then, on behalf of the Catholic institution, he bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws for having displayed "outstanding tolerance...
...they heard the horrible clatter that came from the ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...