Word: catechismic
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The Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is...
"1. No young lady shall become a member of Mt. Holyoke Seminary who cannot kindle a fire, wash potatoes, repeat the multiplication table, and at least two-thirds of the shorter catechism.
Governor Elaine called a tax catechism issued by one of President Frank's professors: "A hodge-podge of lies, half-truths and mis- representation." Thereupon, President Frank replied that the Gov- ernor's statement implied the professor should either retract, resign, or be removed. "As long as I...
In Helsingfors, Finland, Paavo Nurmi, monosyllabic marathoner, had his first interview with President Relander. The Finnish President, in all moments of conversational difficulty, turns to the formula of the catechism like those uncles who ask a child what he is studying, whether he loves his teacher, and so on, without...
"He has relieved the priests of military duty; he has disbanded the Free Masons. He has made obligatory the teaching of the Catechism in primary schools. He has replaced at the Colosseum a cross taken away 15 years ago. But that is not much; it is very little."