Word: boston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
...held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled to universal respect. "That such agreement to disagree...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...
Finally came Rome's ranking U. S. prelate, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. He preached no sermon. He stood quietly watching this enormous demonstration. Asked if he would make any official pronouncement, he shook his head. Said he: "All we know is what we can see with our eyes, and you can see as much...
...parents of William Gaul, 6, wrapped a handkerchief soaked in rainwater from the grave around his neck. Doctors at Boston City Hospital said they noted a sudden improvement in his throat trouble...