Word: asceticism
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Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in...
Chinatown's Lee. Unlucky Dr. C. T. Wang who was beaten, stabbed and mauled by patriotic students (TIME, Oct. 5). because as Nanking's Foreign Minister "his policy toward Japan was not positive enough," recovered partly from his wounds last week. Thrice stabbed, he worried most about his badly beaten...
Humble, increasingly ascetic, Mother Seton found a religious community spontaneously growing up about her. Soon a community house was built for her near Emmitsburg, Md. Impatient to enter it, she walked there from Baltimore with her Sisters: 50 miles in two days. Her group followed the rule of the Sisters...
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, born with the haughties, found a peg to hang a life-grievance on when his young widowed mother married a man he detested, General Aupick. Stepfather Aupick believed in discipline. Stepson Charles disbelieved in Aupick. When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared...
A Kiss of Importance should please people who like quasi-sexual French comedy performed by excellent actors. It is tastefully done and venerable Frederick Kerr, 72, father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr...