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This proposal has not taken the House or the Senate by storm. Instead, the representatives of the people, usually so eager to ally themselves with progress, have maintained strict silence. A few solons, it is true, have booed the idea as foolish. It seems that there is a suspicion current among the majority of these men that light-headedness scientifically obtained and tabublated, would be interested too literally in non-scientific circles, and out of sheer group loyalty they feel they must ignore the issue...
...Vicar would have nothing to do with a marriage which Italians high and low rejoice to call a love match. At last Mafalda and Philip were forced to sign a long petitior in which they promised that any children that may be vouchsafed to them will be reared as strict Catholics. Behind his thick spectacles il Papa, "prisoner" of the nation whose princes must bow to him in matters spiritual, pondered well the petition. Eventually his lips formed the affirmative command of the Caesars. "Fiat!" said il Papa. "Fiat!" echoed King Vittorio, modern Caesar, in puny imitation. "! ! !" cried Mafalda...
...fieldmarshal's uniform was promptly ordered for King Vittorio Emanuele. Thus militantly attired, he was scheduled to give the bride away at "a ceremony to be celebrated in strict solemnity in the private chapel of the royal castle at Racconigi. . . . The celebration will end . . . with a fireworks display...
...press notices. . . . and were inundated with clippings, from full-page feature pages to two-inch news-items-ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR up to date and more still coming." Appended was a list of the newspapers which had already subscribed for the daily editorial together with statement-made in strict accordance with the U. S. mode of measuring a man by his earning capacity-of the fees received by Editor Frank-once $50 a lecture-now $500. "His fees for one average month totaled...
These people are ignorant of the law. It is true that the Romans observed the law that their language so nobly expresses ; true that the Code Napoleon is strict in its provisions protecting the dead from defamation; true that in Italy a man can protect in court the good name of his dead. But anywhere in the U. S. except in the State of Louisiana, anywhere in the British Empire except in the Province of Quebec, a dead man can be defamed without hindrance...