Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the church and state are found in keen opposition. First in the Middle Ages one remembers King Henry, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, on his knees before the head of the Catholic church at Canossa beseeching him for peace. Then in Italy one pictures his holiness retiring into the Vatican forever before the victorious forces of the temporal lord. Now again in Italy again the head of the greatest Christian church is opposed by the state, this time in the person of the most powerful ruler that Italy ever...
Result: In the Oldenburg Diet of 44 members, the Hitlerites raised their representation from three to 19, thus becoming the leading party. Roman Catholics and Jews, bitterest Hitler foes, number in Oldenburg 124,000 Catholics, 1,500 Jews. Total population...
...there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic convert), she heard of the Coffey-Humber cancer work in San Francisco. She visited the Southern Pacific General Hospital unannounced and found the patients praising Coffey, Humber and God. Injections they had received had relieved their pain. Their cancerous growths were sloughing off. Mrs. Conners was persuaded that...
...good conversationalist, Dr. Baker likes to read Greek, Roman and Early American history, to play golf and take long walks. For some 25 years associate superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools, he still belongs to many a smart Pittsburgh club, still takes his wife to opera or theatre there. But he has been ill ever since he underwent a serious operation last year, and his health and temperament were affected long ago by the death of his only son, Lieut. Edward David Baker, an aviator who was shot down in France...
...again till a new generation has grown up. He divides his time between Manhattan and Paris, waiting for that day. Tall, fair-haired,, lumbering. Ford looks like a cartoonist's Englishman, speaks with a wheeze (he was gassed), wears baggy tweeds, smokes cheap French cigarets. He is a Roman Catholic. Other books: Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post...