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WEEK BY WEEK
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Week by Week ttT MYSELF could scarcely believe that such A things could occur in a twentieth-century civilization." These are the words that the President of the United States chose to...
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THANKS TO DEMOCRACY (Cartoon)
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THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING: Thanks to...
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KEMAL THE VICTORIOUS
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Cleveland, C. O.
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Kemal the Victorious By C. O. CLEVELAND AMONG the dictators of our time Kema] Ataturk had perhaps the strongest personality. Behind Lenin's work there were an ideology and a party with a...
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NAZISM AND SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE
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Quinn, Edward
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Nazism and Spiritual Resistance By EDWARD QUINN DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND wrote in 1934 about National Socialism ("Engel-bert Dollfuss," page 25) : "The openly anti-Christian tendencies of...
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THE WORD (verse)
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Allen, Sara Van Alstyne
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The Word Greater than the word is the word, For in its syllables Are woven speaking hands Moving with the lips moving, And in its sound a thousand, tongues Myriad voices shading again its...
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HOW TO MAKE MOLASSES
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Ward, Leo R.
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How to Make Molasses By LEO R. WARD THE PEOPLE for making molasses are a man and a woman and the three or four bigger boys and girls. The process is begun in the spring, during the corn...
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CHILD ASLEEP (verse)
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Sampson, Harriet
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Child Asleep The restless child that would not rest But cried because she could not cease Lies curled upon her mother's breast At last at peace. She would not sleep and yet she lies Unconscious of...
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EDITH WHARTON
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Repplier, Agnes
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Edith Wharton By AGNES REPPLIER THE DEATH of Edith Wharton is like the blotting out of a brilliant star from our horizon. There is no one to take her place, no one who is such a past master of...
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THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST
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O'Connor, William R.
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The Mystical Body of Christ By WILLIAM R. O'CONNOR IS IT correct to refer to the Mystical Body as a metaphor? Many have asked that question (e.g., Dr. Virgil Michel in The Commonweal of...
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VIEWS AND REVIEWS
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Williams, Michael
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Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLUMS A LTHOUGH the results of the national election very jT\ decidedly seem to have restored the Republican party to life, so much so that in all probability what...
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COMMUNICATIONS
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Communications ARE WE FAIR TO THE CHURCH? Oakland, Calif. TO the Editors: Kindly permit me to reply to Walter O'Hagan's letter in the October 7 Commonweal. The Church is like a big family, and...
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POINTS AND LINES
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Toints & Lines The Elections: In Detail THE FIRST reactions of writing people to the elections were general. These were reflected immediately in the newspapers and were based largely on...
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THE STAGE
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Vernon, Grenville
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Into a theatre in which humor is too often either vulgarity or mere physical vitality, he brings humanity and warmth. He is a master of understatement and a personality that is unforgettable. Let us...
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THE SCREEN
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Hartung, Philip T.
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Return of the Waltz, Gangster and Submarine M-G-M wisely announce right in the beginning that "The Great Waltz" is meant to portray the spirit and music of Johann Strauss rather than the facts of...
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
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Books of the Day Power—Pressure—Advertising Power, by Bertrand Russell. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. IN THIS latest book of his Russell is "concerned to prove that the fundamental...
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THE INNER FORUM
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The Inner Forum THE CATHOLIC WOMAN'S LEAGUE of Chicago, now in its forty-fifth year, is caring for 20,000 poor children annually, according to the New World, official organ of the archdiocese. The...
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