Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste," mourned the Motion Picture Daily. Such terms as "profane," "filthy," "obscene," "vomitous," burst from such varied commentators as the Chicago Tribune, the Battle Creek Federation of Women's Clubs, New York's Congressman O'Toole, churches, plain citizens. Washington's Rev. Dr. Maurice Stephen Sheehy, head of Catholic University's department of religion and Don Ameche's great & good friend, was hopping mad. NBC and J. Walter Thompson officials, thoroughly alarmed, hastened to placate him with an apology, announced publicly they would never do it again. At week 's end the Federal...
...Like Stephen Foster (Old Black Joe) and Ethelbert Nevin (The Rosary), Cadman was born in Pennsylvania (Johnstown, 1881). His father was an employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...
Francis Keppel '38, president of the Student Council, and Stephen T. Stackpole '33, secretary to President Conant have offered their cooperation with the Debating Council in aiding the visitors...
...conduct. Feeling that a minority of married priests might cause envy among celibate Catholic priests, Pope Pius X in 1907 issued an apostolic letter enjoining celibacy upon all priests laboring in the U. S. In the same year he established the first U. S. Greek Catholic diocese, sent Bishop Stephen Soter Ortynski to fill it and enforce the order. So incensed were the Uniats-claiming that by the Treaty of Ungvar in 1646 their clergy had been granted the right to marry before ordination - that Carpatho-Russian and Ukrainian members of the church snubbed the papal letter. It remained unenforced...
...Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely, but it shows that a few moderns (Thomas Mann...