Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendship's Sake? His death raised a delicate problem for President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...literature, too. To be read, it had to be fascinating; it was the duty of the historian to make it so. He could not do this without being himself part poet. For "in that strange relation of past and present, poetry is always inherent, even in . . . Greek potsherds and Roman stones, in Manor rolls and Parliamentary reports...
...North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides to anyone who wanted to go to church on Sunday morning. Last week, after two Sundays of free rides, Cabman Gray, son of a Methodist minister, could report that his idea was a solid success...
...writes blonde, fortyish Florence Berger, Cincinnati housewife, in a book which may soon set many another Christian cook to beating her way to Heaven too. Roman Catholic Mrs. Berger's special combination of piety and kitchen skill has produced a new kind of cookbook as redolent of Christian lore as of herbs and spices. This week, as the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa rushed Cooking for Christ into print, Mrs. Berger explained how it all began...
...drum up business for its London-Rome route, British European Airways sent a letter to 7,200 Roman. Catholic clergymen in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was no ordinary promotion letter; it was in Latin and it urged the priests to visit Rome during the Holy Year...