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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic faith." Bishop Dougherty considered them "lapsed Catholics," and in the case of the millions he brought back to the Church he would seem to have been right. Before Archbishop Aglipay became friends with Governor Taft, a Unitarian, he claimed that his Church was Catholic in everything save that it repudiated Rome, abandoned the confessional and permitted priests to marry...
...grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone away from "Liebelei...
...decisions fall where they may. If, like a good Baptist, he kneels before he goes to bed at night to pray, it is highly probable that his daily prayers include the final line of the invocation with which his court crier opens every session: "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." There is doubtless a twinkle in his eye as he says it nowadays, for he is a statesman as well as a jurist and there is ample evidence that his mood today is not one of impotent bitterness. To the American Law Institute last...
...desperate attempt to save the Madrid-Valencia road at which Generalissimo Franco's troops had been hammering for a fortnight, General José Miaja, Madrid's "Supreme Commander," led his Red Militia in person in an offensive on the Jarama River front southeast of the capital. To ensure surprise, trucks, and automobiles belonging to the Red Militia were camouflaged. Headlights, radiators, bumpers were painted to prevent their glittering in the sun. Immediately a White counterattack followed. Soon was raging what correspondents called "a massacre comparable to a battle in the World War." As Whites and Militia mowed each...
...things - mice, little girls, rabbits. Not conscious of his blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money to buy a little farm, settle down in comfort, let Lennie take care of rabbits...