Word: circular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private he considered last week a request from the Duke of Windsor that a paragraph in the Court Circular be devoted in due time to announcing His Royal Highness' engagement to marry Mrs. Bessie-Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...years of his pontificate, Pope Pius XI has given the world his views on countless holy and mundane subjects, in innumerable informal messages and in 28 encyclicals or circular letters. During his grave illness of the past four months, however, His Holiness was generally thought to have said his last say. But the doughty Pontiff heartened his flock by rallying toward the beginning of Lent, and last week Pius XI released his 29th encyclical, a 13,000-word denunciation of Communism, suddenly and startlingly followed this on Palm Sunday with No. 30, addressed to the faithful of Germany and forecasting...
...justice" in a passage which liberal Catholics hoped was a rap at Fascism. Since the Church now appears to get along well with Fascism of the Italian variety, the rap seemed to apply to Naziism. Three days later this was amply confirmed when the Pope dispatched to Germany a circular letter so full of dynamite that copies of it had to be delivered to the Reich clergy in the dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read...
Omitted from the Court Circular, usually meticulous in announcing movements of members of the Royal Family, was a luncheon at Buckingham Palace last week of the Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor...
...Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with...