Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Informed Protestants realize that the Roman Church cannot tolerate religious under standings other than its own, save as a matter of temporary expediency [TIME...
Nelson ("The Doc") Hume had started the school himself, and for 33 years had been its headmaster. Canterbury School, on a hill above New Milford, Conn., blossomed into a tony Roman Catholic version of Groton and St. Mark's. Its ambition was to turn out Catholic boys for Ivy League colleges, without neglecting their religious training. There were no monks or priests about: Canterbury calls itself the only Catholic prep school in the U.S. run exclusively by laymen. Doc Hume, an imposing, bushy-browed man of booming voice, taught the boys apologetics and Christian ethics and led them...
Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest...
...World War II, which De la Mare described characteristically as "the extremest crisis man has ever seen (except a few)," the poet lived quietly, delighted with visits from his grandchildren (he has ten). To his young visitors the old man with his dark massive head like that of a Roman emperor, would sometimes put one of his odd, sharp questions: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" He has had nothing to say about the new honors given him, or the reawakening admiration for his work. As for the hardbought value of civilization, in his neat hand...
...usually mute, but terrifyingly observant. Other contemporaries recall a more vigorous Waugh-a young sport who, like Father Rothschild, rode a motorcycle and, like Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington, drank a good deal and was sometimes noisy in public places. He was conspicuously bohemian and agnostic and enjoyed baiting Roman Catholics, for his wit already possessed a fine cutting edge...