Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casas in Mexico's State of Chiapas one day last week policemen and local officials entered one by one all the city's Roman Catholic Churches. While sextons looked on in timid alarm and, in one church, a woman tried to knife an official, the police roughly stripped the niches of their saintly statues, the walls and altars of their paintings and chromos, carried them all away to destruction...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of family affection that Catholic Mrs. Morgan was reported to be praying before an improvised altar in her dressing room that her granddaughter might remain with Episcopalian Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney attempted to sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared...
...Nobel Prize came at a happy moment for Luigi Pirandello. Last spring he did the libretto for an opera called The Legend of the Changeling Son which was loudly booed at its Roman premiere. Benito Mussolini had it recalled for "moral incongruity" while the well-trained Italian Press chorused "un-Fascist...
...performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?" One day The Roman changed his question to "Pick out the first gerund...
...Jersey City, 100-odd parishioners of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church petitioned their Bishop, Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, to remove their priest, Monsignor Ignatius Szudrowicz. They cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...