Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paris to the Pyrenees last week Frenchmen were reading fantastic accounts of a troupe of giant "rugbymen américains" who were invading the provinces of France, "dressed in gold helmets like Roman emperors" and leaping at one another "like fighting cocks." More than 25,000 curious Parisians had watched them last fortnight in the Parc des Princes. Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that...
Androcles and the Lion (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by the Federal Theatre). The old fable of Androcles, who removed a painful thorn from a lion's paw, which caused the lion, when they met again in the Roman arena, to fall upon his neck instead of his limbs, has come a long way. A generation ago Shaw put the fable into play form as a droll picture of the early Christian martyrs and a juggling act on religion. Last week the Federal Theatre, seeing in Shaw's play "a pertinent dramatic discourse upon the problem of world...
Christendom has grown from a compact 500,000 souls in the 1st Century to a sprawling 682,400,000 today, of whom almost half (331,500,000) are Roman Catholics. In the world's population (nearly two billion) Christians are far outnumbered by non-Christians: Confucianists and Taoists (350,600,000), Hindus (230,000,000), Mohammedans (209,000,000), Buddhists (150,180,000). In teeming China, Christians are less than 1% of the population, in India about 2%, in Japan less than...
...most calculations, Christ was born in 5 B. C. There is no evidence that the date was December 25. As Christmas evolved in early Christian times, it was strongly influenced by the more ancient Roman winter feast of Saturnalia...
...Charles Edward Coughlin, Detroit's rabble-rousing radio priest, has repeatedly offended large sections of the U. S. population, has repeatedly been rebuked by leading U. S. prelates. But he has never been silenced by the Roman Catholic Church, which possesses crushing machinery to deal with heretical or inconvenient priests. Lately Father Coughlin has been abusing Jews. Last week the nation's most popular and liberal Cardinal, Chicago's George William Mundelein, fresh from a visit to the Vatican, issued a statement over the radio that "Father Coughlin is not authorized to speak for the Catholic Church...