Word: abbots
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...Weller '29, O. E. Vaccaro '29, T. H. Eliot '28, Theodore Hall Jr. '29, R. H. Sharp '30, R. C. Weaver '29, S. F. Feyler '30, H. A. Wolff '29, A. D. Howlett '28, J. L. Ware '30, F. E. Shea '29, J. F. Harding '30, Abbot Peterson Jr. '30, and T. M. Stensland...
Several circumstances in the city of Rome demanded the Pope's attention. One was the solemn benediction performed, near the Forum, by an abbot and a troupe of assorted monks, upon a bevy of parked automobiles. Holy water was sprinkled upon the radiators of the cars in honor of Santa Francesca Romana, a patroness of motorists. The other circumstances were connected with Vatican Bond Issue, sold in the U. S., to finance the building of the College for the Propaganda of the Faith, potent Catholic Missionary institution. The Pope had summoned George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago to Rome...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...
...Charles Greeley Abbot, head...