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Against this pronunciamento Mussolini has striven in vain, and now rumors have been quieted by the news that there is, after all, to be no change in Vatican-Quirinal relations, and that Pope Pius I apparently feels that the Holy, Roman and Apostolic Church is an institution of greater permanency than the latest condottore who has laid strong hands on the Eternal City...
Your voice is calm in a hurried and restless age. It tells us of life's abiding happiness and enduring satisfactions; that they lie not in pride of place and power, in greed of gold and vain display, but in simple and elemental things; in the love that glorifies the home; is health of body and mind; in labor that is of service to our fellowmen; and in the joy of work well done. You teach us to be honest in thought; steadfast and true; tolerant, of open mind, and just; and to be of courage and good cheer, having...
...present administration's foreign policy of isolation and non-cooperation was condemned by a vote of 29 to 11 at a meeting of the Debating Union last night, after vain attempts were made by members of the Republican Club to uphold their party...
...soul regardless of skin," the pair will return to enact the second and final act in an apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite mad. He, finally despairing, but still adoring her, will play games with her as he did when they both were little tots. Neither of them will...
More than one ministry in the "right little tight little island" of Great Britain has labored heroically with the problem of unemployment, has been cursed and vilified for laboring in vain, and has gone down under the insensate heel of the mob. Now it appears from dispatches, unless these be propaganda of the present ministry, that the fight has been against an irresistible force of nature. Too late to make redress the English public will discover that it has been unjust, that something which is almost impossible of remedy is the cause of unemployment--bigger and better health. Instead...