Word: aves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Women, 1312 Massachusetts Ave...
...fifteenth century of praying society by 11,000 Germans, known as St. Ursula's Schifflein, received by special contract from the Pope 6455 Masses, 3500 psalters, 200,000 Rosaries, 200,000 Te Deums, 1600 Glorias in Excelsis, and 630 times 11,000 Paternosters and Ave Marias,--an to be performed in Rome for the spiritual benefits of the members of the brotherhood in Germany...
Revelations of the existence of a quietly functioning "birth control clinic" at the Fifth Ave. (Manhattan) office of the American Birth Control League, combined with the agitation over a clinic in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 3) and the anticipated clash over birth control in the 68th Congress have again placed in the foreground of public attention one of the most vexed and, from whatever standpoint considered, one of the most important of medico-social problems...
From a corner of the Opera House that no one had noticed broke the strains of Schubert's Ave Maria. The audience sank back in anticipation, the committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic...
...sell sentiment-not in Washington," shouted a perspiring auctioneer as he knocked down for only $45 a mahogany sofa, two armchairs and one other chair-all upholstered in velour. He was conductting the sale of the furniture of 2314 Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C., formerly the home of Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. The furnished house was sold by the late President and recently resold, which caused the auction of the furniture. The prices paid for Mr. Harding's belongings were commensurate with their intrinsic rather than sentimental value...