Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patriarch greatly desired to go to Chicago by airplane but his five secretaries put their feet down. "Suppose you crashed?" said they. In Manhattan Patriarch Nakayama thrice visited the Empire State Building. He admired St. Patrick's Cathedral because he believes Tenrikyo has much in common with Roman Catholicism - its ritual is complicated and he as Patriarch wears elaborate robes. (But Tenrikyo includes rhythmic dances, camp-meetings.) One of Japan's best jiu-jitsu wrestlers, the Patriarch admires baseball. In Washington he saw the Yankees and Senators play but liked them less than young, fat, vigorous Japanese players...
Last week Chicago's popular, high-church Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart took a leaf from his brother-in-God, Pope Pius XI. Once a year the Pope receives "Peter's Pence" collected in Roman Catholic churches all over the world. Thrice a day the Bishop will get "Bishop's Pence" collected in Episcopal homes all over Chicago...
...Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd...
...coat for which the Roman soldiers gambled while Christ was dying on the cross. It is supposed to have been found near Jerusalem about 330 by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. At Trier it is displayed on a white satin, gold-embroidered cloth. To it are ascribed many cures, especially of lameness...
Died. Irving Babbitt, 67, famed Humanist, professor of French & Comparative Literature at Harvard; after long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. Hating modernism, romanticism, the "Machine Age," he went back to the Greek and Roman classics for an austere doctrine which, with Princeton's Paul Elmer More, he fervently preached. In his lectures he loved to excoriate Jean Jacques Rousseau, No. 1 French romanticist; two years ago his students ran lotteries based on the number of writers Professor Babbitt mentioned in a 60-min. lecture (TIME, March...