Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the protests from various ultra-Protestant quarters, it was authoritatively stated that the King would visit the Pope during his stay in Rome...
Pittsburgh has hitherto been criticized for its ultra-conservative awards. The jury, bold enough to defy Pittsburgh prejudice, consisted of: Augustus John, London; George Desvallieres, Paris; Jonas Lie and Horatio Walker, New York...
...Life of Christ, by Giovanni Papini, was published in Italy in the second year of "the peace"-1921. It rapidly ran through six large editions. The sixth edition is an English translation recently published.- In 1911 Papini shocked even the ultra radical thinkers of Europe by his The Memoirs of God, a book of such extreme atheism that it was considered the last word in blasphemy. The author was the son of an atheist and confessed that he had an extreme dislike for the church from earliest childhood. His mother had him baptized secretly. He became one of the leading...
...Bavaria that the latest scare has come. Herr Severing Minister of the interior, exposed to the Reich on Friday a far-reaching plot of the ultra-reactionaries in Bavaria against the government. On Saturday he followed this up with an almost hysterical message to the police all over Germany of "heightened alarm preparedness". The voice in the whirlwind is Herr Hitler, leader of the National Socialist party in Bavaria. This party has cemented itself with the Liberty party in Prussia, and Herr Severing asserts that the whole movement is backed by the ominous Ludendorff. Certain Paul Reveres in automobiles sent...
...government is stirring up more of a tempest in its teapot than it has bargained for. Saxony is the center of an ultra-radical party, as antipathetic to the reactionaries as fire is to water. And with every rattle of the Monarchist sabre, the red flag is waved a little harder. If the violent Right should go to buffets with the violent left, the trembling Center would find the back of passive resistance in the Ruhr well-high broken...