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Before the Sinn Fein Rebellion of 1916, Mr. de Valera had taught Mathematics, Latin, French at various Roman Catholic colleges in Dublin. Since that time, he has suffered various terms of imprisonment, including a life sentence. But such is fate that he is now free, the leader of the second largest party in the Free State-the Republican-and a national figure whose constitutional theories do not fit in with those of the majority of his countrymen or with the sentiments of the people of Britain. More than that, he is still Chancellor of the National University of Ireland...
...human intercourse." The Lady and the Carpet-More of the same mood, wherein globe-trotting female self-expressionists are contrasted with 1) a quiet, acute Circassian, the stay-at-home spouse of a ship's surgeon; 2) a self-made young business woman from Harlem who, gazing on Roman antiquities, simply remarked her preference for things brand...
...Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...issue is whether the Presbyterian shall be, like the Roman Catholic, a church of hard and fast dogma, unalterably decreed by the head of the Church, or whether it shall be a Church including in its membership all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their divine Lord and Master and who desire to do His will...
...long time. Of an evening, when quizzes are corrected and report cards made out, instead of a cigar, bridge and radio at the Faculty Club, he permits himself to muse on humanities that are "shop" to most of his profession. Andivius Hedulio (1921) was the rich biography of a Roman youth in the tawny splendor of the Augustan Age. Now Scholar White fleshes in that (violet-eyed, dusky-haired) laconic lady who dislocated the destinies of Troy...