Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic...
Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville. Famed for the so-called Callahan Correspondence, consisting of letters between Patrick Callahan and more important public personages, which he mimeographs and broadcasts for editorial quotation, Mr. Callahan was the outstanding Roman Catholic opponent of the Brown Derby last year on the single issue of liquor. He has long been the moving spirit in an Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibition. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, began as a movement chiefly among Protestants. The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education joined its potent propagandizing arm (Department of Moral Welfare) with 30 other temperance organizations including the Anti...
Omen. Before men are done to death in battle, before walled towns are razed and wide-wayed cities sacked, there is almost invariably a potent omen. At Aulis it was a serpent with a blood-red back. In Roman days it was frequently a pair of eagles or a flight of swans...
...awarded to two foreign legal scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...
College for Roman Catholic priests, shouted down the news. Student priests ran to rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts...