Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disgust in Rome. The man who lit the beacon was St. Benedict of Nursia. The facts of St. Benedict's life were all but lost in Europe's long cultural night. The little that is known comes from the Dialogues of St. Gregory. According to St. Gregory, St. Benedict was born (at Nursia in Umbria) about...
...young man, he was sent to school at Rome. But Rome's licentiousness shocked him as it was to shock Martin Luther ten centuries later. St. Benedict fled into the bleak wastes of the Abruzzi. Later he went to the ruins of Nero's villa near Anzio. In the rocks opposite the ruins he found a cave, where he lived forgotten by the crumbling world...
...week's end the Allies were reported to be bombing the Nazi-occupied 6th-Century Abbey of Monte Cassino, where St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks, 1,415 years...
...making double trouble last week. They were set forth in The Races of Mankind, a 46-page, 10? pamphlet published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc., designed to fit a serviceman's pocket and to fight Nazi racial doctrines. The pamphlet was brightly written by Columbia Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, and brightly illustrated (see cut). But U.S.O. President Chester Irving Barnard had called the pamphlet controversial and ordered the Y.M.C.A. to stop distributing it in U.S.O. clubs-after 50,000 copies had been sold...
...male needs proof that women's hats are crazy-and that men get stuck for them-Benjamin Benedict Greenfield of Chicago is the man to see for evidence. At his Bes-Ben hat shop on Chicago's plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke...