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...basement home. An older brother worked in a sweat shop. For two years "Izzy" went to public school, sold newspapers on the side. But on Saturday nights he was rankled to see that the other children had earned more money than he to put in their mother's apron. At 14 he decided he was a burden, ran away...
Wearing a white apron over his white robes, Pope Pius XI stood before a doorway in the portico of St. Peter's on Easter Monday. Chanting prayers, he grasped a golden trowel, pushed three gilded bricks in place, applied three pats of mortar to them. Thus did he formally close the "Holy Door" and bring to an end the "Holy Year of Human Redemption" celebrating the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death (TIME, April 3, 1933). During the year 1,200,000 Pilgrims had come to Rome, gaining full jubilee indulgence for their sins by visiting Rome...
...Lord Bishop of London cried out in a voice shaking with emotion: "I tell you, I would like to make a bonfire of these things, and dance around it." But not even the spectacle of the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram prancing in his gaiters and apron around a pyre of contraceptives could dissuade the Lords. The bill passed...
...disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests to "set." Big Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting...
Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...