Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madness, a modern man believes himself to be Henry IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He had been masquerading as such at a party on the night that he fell from his horse. As a result of this accident, he became mad and continued to play the part in a setting created by his friends--exactly like that of the historical Henry IV. After twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people...
What Lawyer Heyman Zimel of Paterson, N.J. wanted, to make a foolproof test case, were protests from 1) the parent of a schoolchild, and 2) a New Jersey taxpayer. Mrs. Henry O. Klein, ex-Roman Catholic and longtime Secularist, filled the bill for the parent: her 17-year-old daughter Gloria was a student at the Hawthorne High School. Donald R. Doremus, a mechanic of East Rutherford and director of the Secularists of New Jersey, was glad to protest as a taxpayer. With Lawyer Zimel, they filed their case before Superior Court Judge Robert H. Davidson...
...kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII as a "clear testimony of the British people in support of Christian marriage and Christian moral ideals...
Father Clarence Duffy, of the Diocese of Kilmore, Eire, who has been in this country speaking on civil rights, said that "no ecclesiastical authority in the United States can suppress me in the fight for Roman freedom, despite what the press has been claiming...
...Such unions, by Roman Catholic law, include those marriages of non-Catholics which the church recognizes as valid...