Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gugel was chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism in his own way. And now, at 37, he has the chance. He has been commissioned to do a surrealist altar triptych and Stations of the Cross for a tiny Catholic hill chapel in Bavaria...
Moving day was celebrated at an evening service in Washington's red brick First Baptist Church. On hand for the occasion in his regular pew (ninth from the front) was President Harry Truman, who spoke to the congregation from the floor before the altar: "It is a great day in the history of the United States and of Washington. . . . We hope that you will take to heart the prayer in the invocation for a just and honorable peace. . . . We are getting closer all the time . . . but we must have the support of all those organizations that stand...
...story, fondly referred to by veteran script-writers as "Plot No. 3," concerns a lady on her way to marry a wealthy gentleman described by her father as being "as old as I am." However, before reaching the altar she encounters a storm and a naval officer and each has an equally turbulent effect upon her. Fortunately it's not as trite as all that, for Wendy Hiller portrays Joan Webster, the calculating wonan, with a poise and effectiveness that makes much out of not much of anything. Roger Livesey and the supporting east also contribute an occasional worthwhile moment...
...Army headquarters in Rome announced that pregnancy was no longer a reason for marriage. Reasons: 1) too many "undesirable" Italian girls were using it as a means of getting to the altar with a G.I., and thus to the U.S., 2) too many occupation troops were too young to recognize a scheming woman...
...tightly shut lips conveying an expression of cruelty ... in fact, his whole being suggested that he was of exotic birth. More than once as I looked at him, I thought of ... Montezuma whose practiced hand could in a single day sacrifice three thousand human creatures on the pyramid-like Altar...