Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday was later saved from obscurity by romantic poets of the Renaissance. Recalling the practice of Roman bachelors of picking their dates for the day by drawing the names of maidens out of an urn, the poets somehow saw an excuse to deliver lace-splattered declarations to the lovers...
After the P.O.A.U. conference ended, a Roman Catholic spokesman made a fast reply. Said Msgr. John Spence, director of education for the Washington (D.C.) archdiocese, in answer to Bishop Oxnam's speech...
...Christian Century lamented that "the Roman Catholic Church, with its pageantry and color, will have an appeal in television which the Protestant churches lack." The telegenic Catholic Church seemed to have its own problems. In December, worshipers in the New York metropolitan area were warned that watching Mass over TV was not an acceptable substitute for attending Mass in person...
...attack whatever has been launched [by the Roman Catholic Church] on this constitutional principle embodied in the First Amendment. We are not assaulting any constitutional principle when we ask that public and parochial school children of all denominations be included in Government-initiated public welfare programs. The United States Supreme Court, in the Everson decision, established the constitutionality of free bus rides for all children. It is not conceivable that anyone would challenge the constitutionality of health services...
...Doyles were Roman Catholics, and Arthur was sent to Britain's most famous Jesuit public school, Stonyhurst. He was imposingly robust: on one festive occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare...