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...replies to them has been sarcastic and not-to-the-point and incomplete, such as, for instance, your treat-ment of the replies calling your attention to the fact that you had used the incorrect name in dealing with a former Supreme Court Justice as to his being a Roman Catholic or not. I think every bit as much publicity should be given to your corrections and replies as to your original articles...
Through the chinks of a Roman shutter, tiny sunbeams glinted on the telescopic sights of a high power rifle. Across the way was a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi, upon which Benito Mussolini would soon appear. Vast Fascist crowds swarmed in the street, eager to catch the words of their Duce's Armistice Day address. With a baleful flash of satisfaction, the man with the rifle trained its sights still more accurately, and waited...
...parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black and gold, the aspiring incense, the candles, gongs and musical invocations of the Mother of Christ that are the Church's heritage from Rome. They are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...service that followed differed in no particular from a Roman High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them...
...whether or not the players enjoy the game, I don't believe the undergraduates, nor the graduates, nor the general public care a brass button, any more than the Roman populace cared whether the gladiators enjoyed the game of slaying one another, so long as it was given a "Roman Holiday." Nor any more than the spectators care whether Jack Dempsey or Georges Carpentier enjoy being punched and mauled and knocked out. I find that this is the point of view of those I have asked, and I do not claim to be different from the rest. Nobody cares about...