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Bernarr Macfadden publishes in his tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...
...remain silent on questions about which his Catholicism may bias his American statesmanship. . . . Governor Smith can surely make it plain that he is willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism as it is now to discuss Methodism will a certain portion of the American people recover from fears of the 'Roman menace.'" In the Atlantic Monthly, snowy-haired, red-cheeked Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer...
Before dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...Eastern Church about the 6th Century A. D.?? But it met with continued rebuke, as when the Collyridians were denounced by St. Epiphanius for making sacrificial offerings of cakes to Mary. He said: "Let Mary be held in honor. Let the Father, Son and Holy Ghost be adored, but let no one adore Mary." From 500 A. D. on she appeared increasingly in Christian art; many cathedrals were erected under her dedication...
...Power of the most high proceeded through natural barriers without injuring them in any way. Mary was not the passive instrument of the Holy Ghost; she cooperated by supplying the matter, her body and her blood...