Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas present Pius XI got 1,000,000 lire ($51,150), raised among Roman Catholics throughout the world...
Actress Cornell, in staking her queenhood last week on kingly love, Roman honor and Andre Obey, did it with both eyes open. She believes the part is a test for her. If she succeeds, she wants sometime to do Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
Banging and hissing into the Combahee River, S. C. duck preserves of Broker Edward F, Hutton, Manhattan socialite, soared many a skyrocket, roman candle & firecracker, set off by angry hunters. They charged he had caused or permitted ducks to be scared from other preserves so that his own might be well-filled. Warned the Charleston Record in an editorial titled "Hutton, the Czar of Combahee": "There is a limit to the amount of arrogance human beings will stand from any member of their race. Mr. Hutton may some day learn that because he has bought a piece of property...
...opportunity to commit to memory all the more masterly verses of the learned poets superlative erotic and philosophical work. Professor Parry, Dr. Chase, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Westgate, are all well fitted to introduce the diffident Freshman and the difficult Sophomore to the delights of the golden age of Roman poetry. Professor Parry does, perhaps, the best work, because of the tremendous gusto which he evidently takes in the masterpieces which he expounds. Mr. Westgate does the worst teaching, which is still speaking very highly of him, because he spends too much time on the first assignments, and often finds...