Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church law). 3) An infallibility which is the expression of the mind of the Church through the Pope as its organ of statement and which is authenticated by its recognition by the whole Church." The Martian would have heard that six Bishops had associated themselves with the gathering, to wit: Weller of Fond du Lac, Webb of Milwaukee, Griswold of Chicago, Johnson of Colorado, the British Bishop of Honduras, " most gorgeous of all, " and Ethelbert Talbot, senior Bishop of the entire Church. Finally, he would have heard Dr. George Stewart, of Evanston, III, declare: " It is our duty to make...
...side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some times with a ridiculed phrase, some times with an exaggerated gesture. They did not quite like it that he should wear a toga while walking with the Romans. Even the pseudo-Romans...
When Humor, Wit and Persiflage...
Rolf de Mare, famed impresario, also returned to Paris from America. Said he: 'Audacious works like The Skating Rink, by Candou les Maries, and La Tour Eifel, by Jean Cocteau, are beyond the American's narrow comprehension and slow wit...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The tired business man is dragged at the horse's tail of Kaufman-Connelly wit...