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...Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified...
Elizabeth's favor was more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic...
...word HONOR is now being distorted out of all meaning by "demagogues." All Nazi best mouths made it ring throughout Germany last week. Their main point, hammered home thousands of times, was that the Fatherland is menaced by cruel foes who want to deprive Germans of their "honor . . . our precious honor . . . honor, the dearest thing to every German . . . GERMAN HONOR . . . German Honor . . . German honor...
...this sort of business, I am glad to set down in my journal, is a waste of precious time. Those uninspired Representives cannot be moved Delicate discourse on communism, constitutions, free love and growing babies--however interesting--will never change ideas petrified with political emotion. Some people can be convinced only in terms of numbers and majorities; our representatives, it seems to me, are of that unfortunate sort. If the bill is repealed; which, bless my soul, I doubt, it will not be because of ideals, appeal to reason or even to common sense but because the committee is made...
...Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public office, and I prefer to devote myself to my newspapers. . . . However, such a grave crisis confronts the nation that all who believe in our precious institutions . . . must be ready to make many sacrifices. ... If the Republicans will nominate Senator Borah, he will be elected and the America we love will be saved...