Word: trent
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...textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these two secretaries of state could claim a 5? rating in our history...
When one harks back to the Council of Trent in which the church was rejuvenated on the platform of "war against heresy", the progressive attitude of the present Pope sems phenomenal, but the whole world has become tolerant and the Catholic church has had to follow. It never was a leader in this movement, nor has it yet sanctioned the liberal individualism of today. It remains a hierarchy based on dogma, but because of the broad-mindedness of its recent pontiffs has seemed to be in step with the times...
History 52a hf.--History of the Catholic Church from the Council of Trent to Modern Times...
...Trenton, N. J. last week a platform was being concocted for the State Republican Convention by its Resolutions Committee. Outside the meeting room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal...
...Incorporated by Richard III, their titles are: Earl Marshal, Deputy Earl Marshal, Garter Principal King of Arms, Clarenceux King of Arms South of Trent, Norroy King of Arms of North of Trent, the heralds Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester, the pursuivants Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Portcullis and Rouge Dragon...