Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swordmakers of Solingen, in Western Germany, knew a thing or two about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge. Charlemagne armed his warriors at Solingen's smithies. During the Crusades they produced the finest blades in Christendom. In the 16th Century the smiths of Solingen engraved the proud label, "Solingen made me," on their blades...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...
...Should a Roman Catholic judge uphold a law of his land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...
...Executive Secretary Glenn L. Archer of Protestants & Other Americans United for the Separation of Church & State was not reassured. Archer flatly called for the resignation of all Roman Catholic judges who cannot affirm that they will put their oath of office before the guidance...
Pope. And in heavily Roman Catholic Las Vegas, N.M., District Judge Luis Armijo put himself on record as having no intention of being bound by the ruling of the Pontiff. "I may be a Catholic," he announced, "but I'm a citizen of the United States first...