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With hearts pounding, they read on. If the Beatissime Pater was actually about to set out for the North Pole, he must intend to break tradition that he remain "the prisoner of the Vatican." Should Pius XI take but a step across his threshold, the Catholic world would literally be rocked to its foundation. The next heavy type headline made it appear that not even the excuse of polar exploration was being offered by Pius XI. For it read...
...DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON-John C. Fitzpatrick (Editor) - Houghton, Mifflin, 4 vols. ($25). The complete diaries of our pater patriae, showing how dull was his daily round and how much liquor he bought for his establishment...
...hamstringing the meagre success which Pater Baldwin has achieved in dealing with unemployment, ha wrought upon his hearers' feelings by recounting the suicide of a workless former soldier, and concluded: "He is only one of the many men who, during the last few months, have been sacrificed on the altar of the Government, which is far more concerned with the profits made out of industry than with the lives of its own people...
...official family had sent a delegation to welcome back their pater familias patriae. Next day found the family reassembled?all except the substantial Secretary of War who still was ill at his summer home in New Hampshire. The hulking Attorney General strolled grinning into the White House office building, the heavy treading Secretary of Interior, the tired Secretary of the Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg...
...This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some Italian lake with my beloved Shelley, Keats, and violin. ... I am too tragic by nature. ... I don't give a damn about anybody. ..." Critics took him up. On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that...