Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passionate way she went at things will make you admit she had more than her share of courage. The Author. Mary Borden's husband is Brig. General Edward Louis Spears, one-time M. P., with whom she lives in one of London's old houses behind Westminster Abbey. When her husband stands for Parliament, she helps his campaign by many a speech. When he sits there, she goes to her seaside cottage and writes novels. In appearance she suggests what Helen Wills Moody will look like at 35. Other novels: The Romantic Woman, Jane-Our Stranger, Three Pilgrims...
Gradually yielding its splendor and dignity of archaic. Romanesque architecture to the picks of Kenneth John Conant '15, associate professor of Architecture and a corps of student assistants, the Abbey of Cluny, once the center of Middle Age Monasticism in historic Burgundy reveals again its age-old beauty...
Tourists and scholars generally pass the abbey by in their ramblings for broader education, though the ruins at Cluny were once the center of the Western Church and exerted a powerful influence on the history and art of the period. It is one of the least known of famous places...
...main building, a church, built about the year 1080, was sold to contractors and partially wrecked for the building material between 1798 and 1823; while the old abbey buildings were razed to make room for encroaching modernity...
Gregorian Chants by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (Victor, $24)?Preferred ritual music of the Roman Catholic Church (its arrangement is attributed to Pope Gregory I), sung in the preferred...