Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most venerable. "None but churchgoers seemed abroad . . . undergraduates and graduates and wives and tradespeople, walking with that unmistakable English church-going pace . . . holding, bound in black lambskin and white celluloid, the liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House. Blackfriars ... all in the summer sunshine going to the temples of their race. Four proud infidels alone proclaimed their dissent: four Indians from the gates of Balliol, in freshly laundered white flannels and neatly pressed blazers, with snow-white turbans on their heads, and in their...
...taken four months of prodigious labor by bald, burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...lieutenant governor of Washington (state) is a onetime bandleader who still delights in music. While collecting votes last year, Victor Aloysius Meyers impulsively invited a former movie-palace organist, just discharged from the Army, to come to the State Capitol some time and play for the legislature. Organist Phil Raboin eventually showed up in Olympia, was put on the state payroll as a clerk and assigned to soothe ruffled legislative nerves with a daily recital...
Hope's prime offense, according to Novena Notes' editor, Father Terence Aloysius Seery: "His remarks about girls -when he mentions what they have on, and that sort of thing...