Nothing Succeeds Like Success IT IS a human and evidently natural thing, not unnoted in scripture, that mankind prefers helping those who help themselves, that those who have something more...
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44 CUSSING" the British has been an indoor sport of considerable popularity with various peoples for a long, long time; but its present vogue in this country is an arresting development. For...
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ON THE MORNING of Labor Day, 1939, a solemn Mass of Requiem was celebrated at the church of St. Paul the Apostle, Troy, N. Y., for the repose of the soul of John M. O'Hanlon, who had served as...
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THE ARTICLE "Reply to Jacques Maritain" ( T H E COMMONWEAL, December 29) is offered as a criticism of Maritain's views expressed in the issues of October 13 and November 24. The "Reply" makes...
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The placid order of the lawn And ivy walls that hold the light Will not change while the bows are drawn And arrows flash away in flight. Bright is that target in the sun With those gay feathers...
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SO MANY letters have reached me from so many diiferent parts of the country, and of such high quality in thought and expression, commenting upon my articles dealing with the German mystic,...
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MEN NEEDED New York, N. Y. TO the Editors: Men needed for jobs is such an unusual story these days that we hope you will give your readers an opportunity to see this communication. The demand...
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Christmas Eve THERE IS certainly nothing which can offend the moral sense in "Christmas Eve"; indeed in its basic philosophy and in its ch"aracterization it might well have come from the pen of...
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"Tell Me About de Rabbits, George" C t T j E S T " lists are popping all over the place. Here JLJ are the pictures, from the hundreds I saw last year, that stand out for me as the best of the...
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About a Possible Future The Idea of a Christian Society. T. S. Eliot, Harcourt. $1.50. EVIDENTLY Mr. Eliot's latest book is a strange ( thing. One person can read it and find it a...
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IN T H E January Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Father Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Director of the Rural Life Bureau of the NCWC, gives a survey of the work of the motor missions in 1939. Scarcely five...
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