Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are famed wells at Marienbad which have cured the distempers of many of the bourgeoisie of Germany. The property at the famous watering place is mostly in the hands of the Abbey of Tepl. Until recently it was leased by the Abbot to a German-Bohemian corporation. Now he is suing to recover...
Britishers, having just recovered from an appeal to their purses for repairing St. Paul's Cathedral, heard with dismay that Westminster Abbey is now in need of $2,500,000 for reparations...
...particular shows that even back in the days when the University had blue Sundays and witches were hurned on Harvard Square, that the undergraduates still had a sense of humor. According to the frontispiece, the song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality of bed maker and sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherited his whole estate which he bequeathes...
...piece includes six other verses enumerating the articles of his worldly wealth which went to Father Abbey's wife. At the end there is a concluding line--"Thus Father Abbey left his spouse as rich as any church or college mouse, which is sufficient invitation to serve the college in his station...
...another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance...