Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also were 500,000 potentially troublesome Germans, 440,000 difficult Magyars, tens of thousands of White Russian exiles. The majority of Serbs and Montenegrans (now pretty much merged) are Serb Orthodox communicants, but there are also about 1,500,000 Moslems among them. The Croats and Slovenes are largely Roman Catholics...
Among the illiterate peasantry the Iron Guard made many friends. Wherever it became strong it built schools, churches and bridges, naming them after a certified Rumanian patriot or a Roman Emperor. Nor were the higher places neglected. Rumanian bureaucracy was dotted with Iron Guard members and probably still...
...Gallup survey on gambling games found that while Protestant and Roman Catholic moralists periodically protest against U. S. churches raising money by gambling-bingo, lotteries, raffles-the most popular kind of gaming, indulged in by 29% of the population, is that conducted by churches. Reason: most people do not consider it really gambling...
...Roman Catholic Church has long made it an earthly policy to tolerate any form of government under which it is free to pursue its mission. Toleration does not, of course, constitute endorsement or support. Last October, however, Pope Pius XI, taking into account the recent course of world events came near to praising democracy. In a message to the U. S. hierarchy for the golden jubilee of the Catholic University in Washington he wrote...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...