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...elected to fill the French Chamber seat of Roger Salengro, Minister of Interior who killed himself after the Rightist press hounded him as a War deserter, his hitherto obscure brother Henri, a small-town politician. Claiming she had refrained from remarrying in 1907 on the promise of the late Vicar General John Joseph Dunn of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York that he would leave her one-third of his estate...
...Prince of Peace lies dying, Plus XI, at the age of 79, reaching the end of his uneventful pontificate, waits to be gathered to his fathers. The eyes of the world, or of such part of it as still believes in the importance of the influence wielded by the vicar of Christ on earth, watch anxiously for his successor...
...excerpts from Janet's diary. An orphan, marrying at 19 and bearing an unwanted child to a man she did not love, Janet had the additional ill luck to be given an inquiring and unconventional mind in an environment where any unprecedented action created talk. She tormented the Vicar with her peace meetings and suffraget agitation as much as he tormented her with his prejudices, his temper, his complaints that she had ruined his career. Only her deep friendship for a dour Scottish spinster, whose plays became successful, saved her, and when they quarreled over votes-for-women Janet...
Meanwhile Ruth Alleyndene had been painfully growing up in a prosperous household to which the Vicar preached for a time. She went to Oxford, became a War nurse, learned that her brother had been on the verge of being disgraced for his homosexuality before he was killed in action, fell in love with a cheerful, courageous Harvard graduate who was serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery...
...sons and daughters of this North American continent, in spite of present difficulties, enjoy a condition of noble and decent human existence which is the prerequisite of a true and lasting peace in society." The Cardinal was then officially welcomed to Manhattan by energetic, 80-year-old Vicar General Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle of the New York Archdiocese, whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be greeted by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, with whom two days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look...