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Some time ago, the Becco Giallo (Yellow Beak), a weekly political paper of Rome, was suppressed for being unkind to Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cautions | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

Cancer Once again the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen, "perpetual rebel" was announced. Once more it was denied.* But an operation was performed upon the body of the Chinese leader. It was discovered that his liver was cancerous. Doctors said his case was hopeless. Unkind critics said that there was now real hope for peace and unity in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cancer | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

When Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky, the Russian composer, was about 37, a critic told him that he was past his prime. In his mind, at these unkind words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harp | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...Chapman called the Bishop's attention to "the customary silence with which such statements by Roman pre lates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subversive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman curia, or even to call attention to them. The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education." Later in his letter, Mr. Chapman referred to the election, some years ago, of a Catholic (James Byrne, of Manhattan) as one of the seven Fellows of Harvard. "Under present conditions of Protestant speechlessness, the presence of a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Symposium | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...historic learning of the Cardinal may be at fault; but it is not to this point that I would call attention, but rather to the customary submissive silence in which such statements by Roman prelates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subsersive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman Curia, or even to call attention to them. The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASSAILANT OF CATHOLIC FELLOW NO OVERSEER | 11/18/1924 | See Source »

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