Word: verdier
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...Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take a drink until complete Allied victory, was rumored to have fallen off the wagon at an Elsa Maxwell Paris celebration party...
...also the principles of National Socialism, particularly on blood and race. . . . The attitude of the Papacy . . . contributed very sensibly to the development of the war psychosis. . . . Numerous militant Catholics in France joined the warmonger's clique. This barking chorus of sulky dogs was made complete when Cardinal Verdier [in December 1937] declared that Christian doctrine and democratic principles were fundamentally identical...
Bishop Lawrence urges us "to risk our lives" in attacking our neighbors; Bishop Manning speaks of the "vast amount of mistaken and really un-Christian teaching about peace"; and the late Cardinal Verdier said "the war is a holy crusade...
Died. Jean Cardinal Verdier, 76, Archbishop of Paris, Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice. Famed as a scholar and teacher, Father Verdier had been for more than ten years the spiritual leader of a diocese of five million...
...several centuries too late for Pius XII to proclaim officially a crusade, but His Holiness gave every sign last week of finding the metaphor chosen by Cardinal Verdier felicitous. With joy the French primate received a letter entirely in the handwriting of Pius XII. "We desire ardently," wrote the Pope, "that Catholic France, overcoming the difficulties of the present hour, achieve in ever greater degree her noble vocation of apostleship and civilization, which Divine Providence has assigned to her in the concert of nations...