June 10, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 177 procession, which, by July, 1937, counted twenty-four states and territories, including almost all the important industrial states in the Union. One of the most...
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Life in a Large Family By AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL UNLESS born one of a half-dozen children (or more, or slightly less), one should not attempt to write of the corporation known as "the large family."...
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434 The Commonweal February 11, 1938 ticipation of the laity in the Mass reduced to dimmest memories, and not a few ugly tokens of avarice might be seen in the methods used to stimulate donations...
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UNCONSCIOUS POETS By AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL THERE is assuredly nothing new in the observation that children are the true and unconscious poets. For many years, prior to becoming a parent, I...
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December 2I, I934 The Commonweal 225 Da Vinci and Goethe did not know, or did not wish to know, His name. Dante knew it, and we can learn from him. We can, but we do not wish to. We have...
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296 THE COMMONWEAL July 17, 1929 Beach Party Note how the very waves recede In deference to Uncle Mead, A man who holds all things in thrall, So puissant and abdominal! Amelia, who could...
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710 THE COMMONWEAL April 24, 1929 through the erection of Catholic institutions. During and collectively. In...
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January 16, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 317 scientific subjects he referred to is about the same as IN DEFENSE OF...
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On such a morning of good-will, When thoughts and pigeons fly, I lean along a golden sill And compliment the sky, So clear, so excellently blue, It clarifies all things! Now I am re-created...
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These have I lost—June's tender stars. The gentle little sheep that stray And crop behind celestial bars The clover of the Milky Way! And these I can no longer find— A field where miracles...
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^yxCassacre in June The reaper came today. (The grass was long, Plumey and proud!) He paused to whet his scytfoc, Then with a kind of hot and whirring song Of execution, terrible and blithe, He...
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98 THE COMMONWEAL December I, 1926 diseases affecting our characteristic "American Chris- tianity" is Christian unity. To secure this desidera- tum, as Christ prayed for its continuance--"that...
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