Word: ignatius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once to the U. S. (where he later confessed that he had spied for Germany), eventually went to China and there became a Buddhist monk...
Absent from the fortnight trial was Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, who introduced a bill to help the bond redemption by Congress legislation. To lobby for the bill "Peewee" and her pals were flown to Washington for champagne parties. Said Buckner, "It never occurred to me that I had to become a monk. . . ." But for throwing away $12,500 of bondholders' funds on the parties, as chairman of bondholders' protective committee, as well as the bond rigging, Bondster Buckner and his friend Gillespie were convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, may have to spend 37 years...
Father Robert Ignatius Gannon, 46, is halfway through his six-year term as head of Fordham, biggest of the nation's Catholic universities. Like its football teams, Fordham is rough, tough, commercial. President Gannon, a onetime English and philosophy teacher, believes there is nothing wrong with Fordham football or fascism in Italy, plenty wrong with Progressive Education...
Catholics looked on the Society of Jesus with much suspicion before Pope Paul III formally approved it in 1540. In Spain, where Ignatius and his handful of followers begged and taught, he was twice jailed, often investigated, once haled before the Inquisition. In Paris, Ignatius cut an odd figure as a University student of 37. Author Marcuse places greater emphasis on Jesuit Loyola's physical activities than on the early turmoil of soul which produced the Spiritual Exercises, the extraordinary manual by which Jesuits are formed and live. But he does not slight the other distinctive aspect of Jesuitism...
...travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face.† Of women he said: "Conduct religious conversations only with aristocratic women and never with the door shut...