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...Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...ROAD TO ROME?Hannibal, general of Carthage, is destroyed by the noblest Roman woman of them...
...Society of Rosicrucians (Rosenkreuzer) dates from early in the 13th Century, when it was more a class of isolated individuals than an organized cult. The members were Europeans, mostly Germans. During the Reformation they favored Lutheranism as opposed to Roman Catholicism. The "society" was popularly supposed to take its name from one Christian Rosenkreuz, who was supposed to have discovered Oriental secrets on a pilgrimage. Writers, such as Poet Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Poet Adamson in The Muses' Threnodie used Rosicrucian paraphernalia-supernatural beings, alchemic formulae, astrological signs-to embody moral teachings. The ritual...
...priest and three Roman Catholic youths sat in a cell in Mexico City, last week, solemnly munching a breakfast of eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
...ROAD TO ROME?How Roman women went...