Word: bazin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Molokai eight years ago went Father d'Orgueval, 53, descendant of an aristocratic French family, scholar and orator, friend of the late Novelist Rene Bazin. A Wartime chaplain, much-decorated, he lost his voice from gassing, volunteered thereupon to work at Molokai for the Congregation of Picpus* which has charge of it. Within the past year Father d'Orgueval has been visited by Father Joseph A. Sweeney of the Maryknoll Fathers in Ossining, N. Y. Last week it was learned, by letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons...
...characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest novel Authoress Delmar writes of three women and takes pains to show, not only that they lived, but that they lived too long. The thesis would swamp the book if the characters did not keep bailing it out. Katherine Bazin hates life after her husband leaves her, nurses her tuberculosis in hopes of death. When her husband unexpectedly returns she longs to live, but she dies. Her daughter Lou is happy when she and her husband Chappy are poor. When her baby son dies she almost dies too. Chappy becomes...