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...were miserable," Dr. John L. Shells, physician to the institution, said only last week. "It seems to me that radium makes them worse, unless it is applied very early. . . .We let them alone and just keep them comfortable, and sometimes they live for years." Mother Alphonsa always had to beg for funds, had donors throughout the country. The New Rochelle mourners of Miss Merrill were sadly contented to join these. They phoned Rosary Hills, asked for Mother Alphonsa to tell her the glad news directly...
...This opening sura, the equivalent of the Christian Lord's Prayer, goes: In the name of God, the compassionate compassioner. Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds, the compassionate compassioner, the sovereign of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way; in the way of those to whom Thou hast been gracious, on whom there is no wrath, and who go not astray. The sixth verse coincides word for word with the 11th line of the 27th Psalm. The religious student notes further...
...voted thrice for Woodrow Wilson, I beg to remonstrate. Omitting all question of pulchritude, Edward W. Bok looks no more like our martyred hero than Benny Leonard* looks like William Howard Taft. Did you ever see Bok? Have you any one's word for the "striking likeness" [TIME, May 31, p. 17] besides his? The distinguished immigrant-editor-publicist-pacifist has a fleshier face than President Wilsons ever was. His type is far less intellectual, broader, heavier in every way; strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow...
...beg the Court to place the entire blame upon my shoulders. I beg for the acquittal of the men who obeyed my orders, seeing in me their protector in a great service to the fatherland...
...notice in the booklet that you are soliciting unrestricted funds, and beg to enclose my check for $50 towards the good cause...