Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They seem to have forgotten their true function as an opposition party. Instead, they have perched like vultures in the trees of Lafayette Park waiting for the victim to choke on alphabet soup...
Hierarchy. The Cardinal-Archbishops of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston did not go to Cleveland. By a sort of gentlemen's agreement, the Princes of the Church in the U. S. defer politely to whichever of their number is official representative at a function. But the Cleveland Congress brought out the rest of the U. S. hierarchy in almost full force. Present were 5.000 priests. 2.000 monsignori, 90 of the 120 bishops. 13 of the 18 archbishops. Notably present were: Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.; Cincinnati's gentle Archbishop McNicholas. Legion of Decency founder...
...document declared that teaching at Harvard would become a "state function, subject to the interpretation and approval of state officials...
...generosity and interest of Miss Mabel Lyman and her friends, the Hostess House at 25 Follen Street will function again this year as a rest house
Henley regatta was held in a blaze of sunshine again this year. It is the finest function of the year to those who know it, although it does not rank with Ascot and Cowes in the debutantes programme. Cambridge crews were victorious in three events, and Cambridge blazers everywhere in evidence on the bank. The Diamond sculls, held by a German, have gone to Switzerland now. The rowing world hopes it will be able to welcome an American crew next year to the regatta. But the rowing is only a part of Henley; there are meetings of old rowing...