Word: romanizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators, including 2,000 American tourists, gathered for services around the base of the largest and costliest (approximately $500,000) of these memorials, a 175-ft. Doric shaft conceived in pink Italian granite by famed Architect John Russell Pope after the Emperor Trajan's column honoring his victorious Roman legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson...
...Farouk the First arrived back in Cairo to have his own kingship solemnized by a ceremony for which there was no precedent, no tradition. Nearly 2,000 years ago died beak-nosed but fascinating Queen Cleopatra*, the last of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egypt then became a province of the Roman Empire until 641 A.D. when it fell to the Mohammedan Empire. In 1914 the British Empire's War Office issued this proclamation: "In view of the state of war arising out of the action of Turkey [in joining Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Belgium and Russia] Egypt...
Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...
Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before...
...policeman. "What's that bulge in your hip pocket, a black-jack?" "No, it's a handkerchief and a medal," said the policeman, pulling out the handkerchief. "Oh, so you're a hero, eh?" snapped Liebowitz. "No," said the cop, pulling out a religious medal, "a Roman Catholic...