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Cardinal Gasparri, Prince of the Church, is of course a "Papist" in only the most enlightened and suavest sense. His Policy is to keep on the best possible terms with Christian governments outside of Italy and to wear down the resistance of succeeding Italian regimes to the Pope's claims of temporal sovereignty. Upon this point, Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican, declared last fall that His Holiness claims: "Liberty and independence, not only real and perfect, but also manifest to the faithful of the whole world...
...humor of this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
INTERFERENCE?Proving politely that bad men may sometimes wear monocles instead of masks (TIME...
...Pius X spoke of him to potent Cardinal Merry del Val, then the Papal Secretary of State: "Abbot Gasquet is really the right man in the right place, and we must show him our appreciation. ..." A few months later His Holiness gave Francis Aidan Gasquet permission to wear a Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial in his talk and warmly sensitive, looking much older than he did a few years ago, still carrying the impression of an unintentional austerity, of power, Cardinal Gasquet said to reporters that in order to fulfill the Pope's command...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...