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Peter at last been found? Delicate Digging. Throughout the centuries, the appearance and location of St. Peter's tomb has been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was crucified head downward in Nero's Circus, somewhere between 64 and 67 A.D., his body was buried in a pagan cemetery near by. Pious legend tells how Constantine, who built the first basilica over St. Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded...
...from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation at a word or a contemptible action...
Rumor says Bill "Chewy" Shuey a Don "The Brow" Royce had a big the last Saturday at the Statler. Guess left too early, boys. Skippy Sinbe class specimen officer, brought a nine (human) specimen to Cowie last liber eve. Question is, where were "Buggy and Stan...
Blue and white posters plastered Montreal with the news: "Enfin, Houde est liberé." After holding him for four years, the Government had at last released Camillien Houde, four times mayor of Montreal. He had been interned (near Fredericton, N.B.) "for the safety of the state," because, as mayor, he told French Canadians not to register for the draft...
...dull Cambridge afternoon into a few hours of interesting exploration. It is possible for one to travel from the highly sophisticated spirit of medieval Chinese art to the outspoken religious ardour found in the engravings of William Blake. With the Blake prints, some excellent pieces from Turner's "Liber Studiorum" can be seen, together with etchings and engravings by Goya and Delacroix. Blake's illustrations of passages from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic Books." The engravings, especially one called "The Fire Of God Is Fallen From Heaven," contain tortuous, Signorelli-like figures...