Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week after a son was born to her in Manhattan's Mount Morris Park Hospital two years ago, Mrs. Albert L. Lyman lay in the maternity ward, her husband sitting by her bed. Idly the Lymans, good Roman Catholics both, watched a man in a skullcap bring in a baby on a pillow, deposit it on the adjoining bed of Mrs. Shirley Lippman. "Mazzal Tov! Good luck!" beamed the man, rubbing his hands. "It was a fine b'rith!" Mr. Lyman took a second look at the infant on Mrs. Lippman's bed, exclaimed: "Why, that...
...established himself there as one of the shrewdest schemers of a conspiratorial day. He fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions...
...rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with a gift...
...there has been little open cleavage between the Irish inheritors of wealth, position and authority and those with longer established antecedents. A "good front" has always been a Boston and Massachusetts tradition, and the Princes of the Roman Catholic Church, the Presidents of Harvard University, the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Governors of the Commonwealth regularly occupy adjacent positions of honor at all public functions, subscribe their names as patrons to the same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected...
...Though Roman Catholic financing rarely runs into the difficulties often associated with clerical commitments in general, no Roman Catholic Church is consecrated while it has a mortgage still outstanding. During the debtor period, the church is merely blessed. The ceremony of blessing permits the holding of services but does not permanently dedicate the building to God. When the church is debt-free, it is then irrevocably consecrated...