Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international competitions, it has been noticed that Italy invariably loses. Any competition in which Italy loses is not one to be encouraged by the Fascist State. "Foreigners...
...that the Papacy is a temporal State as well as a heavenly kingdom, such mundane things as state receptions and banquets are in order at the Vatican. Last week Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, beetle-browed secretary of the Papal State, signalized the new era with his first diplomatic luncheon. Gathered in stately Vestments Hall were 60 ambassadors and ministers in full dress, wearing swords and decorations. Present too were white-ruffled, silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu...
...there was a White House tea. For tennis play there were audiences which included Mrs. Hoover, Japanese Ambassador & Madame Katsuji Debuchi, Germany's elegant Ambassador Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Sweden's Wollmar Bostroem, China's Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Greece's Charalambos Simopoulos, U. S. Secretary of State & Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. William Mitchell, Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs. Pierce Butler...
...became the "Big Nine" last week when members of the Great Western Athletic Conference ousted the University of Iowa on charges of professional athletics. The "Big Ten" used to be Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State. Iowa, stunned, waited further developments, threatened exposure of professionalism in other "Big Ten" universities...