Sam I. Johnson Dull stacks immure the bathos of Irene, That paragon; the Dictionary's phrases, Caustic, ambagious, seldom now are seen, Though literary London pealed their praises; No longer does...
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492 THE COMMONWEAL September 9, 1938 progress of labor by smearing its leaders. In-spired by greed of gain and lust of power they will not tolerate the rise of strong labor unions. It spells the...
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18o THE COMMONWEAL June 1o, 1938 tism), even conditionally; he is not bound to make a general confession of his whole life; if he be priest or bishop he is received as such and continues (unless...
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December 13, 1935 The Commonweal 183 fall, but we are convinced that his idea has conquered." ... The Catholic...
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Potato Country Rank upon rank they surge across the meadows, Their pallid blossoms blowing purple-white, Malevolently green as jungle shadows. . . . By day we tend them-dream of them by night In...
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Clansman Reluctant, new, he watched the masters stroll In academic gown across the green Before the chapel-terror chilled his soul, Awed by the medieval-monkish scene. Some, solemn, silent,...
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292 Term's End Now comes the tide of many a feast Whose echoes long shall linger, But chief are the Moot of the Questing Beast And the Fitte of the Pointing Finger! Now parfit knights fain...
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Plankton One will be a warrior; One will be a priest; One will deal in little cakes And ices for a feast; One will venture underseas; One will sweep the sky; But here in study-hall they...
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296 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1932 Misfit Five feet three and a half is he, And his hair is greying and thin; His face is white, and his blue eyes' light Thick spectacles window in; His...
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42 THE COMMONWEAL May 13, 1931 institutions : wrought iron loaned by Samuel Yellin, books by Dr. Rosenbach, the Guelph treasure by the Goldschmidt Galleries, statuary by Raymond Pitcairn. The...
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