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Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blood in New Mexico | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...defense men Jim Roberts played the stellar game, paving the way for Hovenanian's tally. With Dick Claflin he put up a stubborn defense that kept the Tigers under the leash for most of the struggle. Thorny Brown did his part, and although Ash Emerson was responsible for the first Tiger goal, he deflected the third period shots that would have turned the game over to Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS BOW 3 TO 2 IN LAST HOME TILT OF 1936 SEXTET | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

...Saturday, and seeking not to overdo it with the Yale game coming up, didn't really go at it hammer and longs till the going got rough. And the fans were satisfied to watch them artfully defend the two goal lead until Ken Willis, the Tiger captain, scored when Ash Emerson let a side-shot bounce into the not halfway through the last canto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS BOW 3 TO 2 IN LAST HOME TILT OF 1936 SEXTET | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

...Alice and the Old Woman again," he said with an air of resignation. "I'll have to barricade myself in the Sanctum for the next twenty-four hours and lie as low as the heel who took those ash trays off the Dunster House tables. I tell you those women will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...shooting gallery, for the Braeburn team, without substitutes to relieve them, were unable to stand up under the power of fresh Harvard attacks, and the goalie was continually peppered with bullet shots. Dick Claflin, on the other hand, did a good job on the Harvard defensive protecting Ash Emerson from the shots of the clubmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUCKSTERS TAKE BRAEBURN SEXTET 16-6 IN FAST GAME | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

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