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...Chapter XXI. These puzzles Detective Lippmann set himself to solve. Swishing-big words around like Philo Vance, he one-two-threed his argument, hauled in the suspects, pointed his finger at the guilty man at the end of Chapter XXI. Said he: Any man who has been President of the United States, "or only vice president of a barber shop," will, when it comes time for him to go, wish to feel that no one can bear to have him leave. Therefore, "there never was a President who did not want to be elected for a second term, and never...
...Francis' eye ailment probably was trachoma, an ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final resort the doctors applied hot irons to the Saint's face...
...Mexico considers it necessary to accompany her act of acceptance with the declaration that she has never 'admitted the regional understanding mentioned in Article XXI of the League covenant...
...Article XXI specifies that "regional understandings" shall not be affected by the League covenant. The regional understanding that Mexico was not admitting is, of course, the Monroe Doctrine, distasteful to proud Latin Americans because of its implication that Latin American countries are not capable of guarding their own interests from European aggression. Washington was not particularly soured by Minister Estrada's lemon. From the State Department came an unofficial statement that no matter how Mexico feels about it, the Monroe Doctrine will remain in effect...
...classes), Paray-le-Monial (the city of the Sacred Heart), Brussels, Lourdes (the city of Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular procession of the Blessed Sacrament), Rome, Metz (where the Germans suspended the law of 1870 to permit the procession), London.** The XXI Eucharistic Congress was held in 1910 at Montreal close to the faith-healing shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre. This was a stupendous meeting of 750,000 pilgrims. But it was too far from the great centres of U. S. Catholicism to spread the full effects of its potentialities...