Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest peak (15,217 ft.) from the Italian side-most daring of the 200 Alpine ascents made during his lifetime...
...earth. That policy led the Church into some dilemmas, could very well lead it, under a new Pope, into more. But with all its dangers the Church's policy remained, as wielded with prudence and steadfastness by Pius XI, the one international influence whose weight was on the side of peace and faith...
...when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying instead of drinking) and painting pictures. In any case, admirers last week remembered incidents which went...
...year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars...
After this spiritual death, his adventures are carnal enough. He turns up on a southbound tramp steamer, becomes embroiled in an abortive Haitian rebellion, tries his hand at Washington politics. As the War begins he becomes a-foreign correspondent-on the German side. When the U. S. is on the brink of joining the Allies, he carries on underground anti-Ally propaganda to keep the U. S. out. Courting but never really espousing lost causes, living up to his ideals but not to his talents, he scorns worldly success, of course never gets it. At the end, all the rapscallion...