Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clearly it was high time for Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, to speak out. Addressing the Diocesan Board of Rome, he prefaced his remarks thus: "Sad, beloved Sons, are the things we come to tell...
...Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri was believed, last week, to have taken a bold step. This was to arrange an audience with the Pope for Gustav Cardinal Piffl of Austria (TIME, May 2) in the course of which His Holiness allegedly said: "This you will please tell all Catholics, I am not free and the relation between the Church and State in Italy today is exactly the same as on Sept. 20, 1870. We will do all possible in the future, and we will also pray. But we must at the same time be prepared to see even worse...
...were even more anxious than usual for this information is shown by the fact that some 600 of them turned out to hear Dean Pound, Professor Scott of the Law School Faculty, Erwin Griswold, president of the Harvard Law Review, and the President of the Legal Aid Bureau tell of the Law School and its associated activities. This is some 70 more men than attended the year before...
There are a few good spots in the book, such as the meeting of the author with the original Mrs. Grundy, but they are few and far between. Even where Mr. Bok has a good and original tale to tell, he more often than not spoils it by stretching it to excessive length and smothering it under bromidic sentimentality...
...like to play to college audiences," she declared, changing her subject. "They are much quicker to catch on, and an appreciative audience is easier to play to. I can tell in the first three minutes I am on the stage just how responsive the audience is, not by the applause, but by the little ripples of amusement...