Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeks plebiscited 758,742 for the Republic and only 325,322 for gorgeous Georgios, still one of the best-dressed men in Europe. He now lives in London, partly on the bounty of George V with whom he often dines, week ends...
...peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
...morning, most Roman citizens are still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
...changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...
...because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...