Word: brethrens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rosy complexions of our sun-worshipping fourth company brethren are attributable to their romp with nature in the form of a skiing excursion to the North Conway trails last Saturday. If you're of like mind, there's a suggestion for the weekend. If not, here's another. A special leaves at 1225 tomorrow for Providence, R. I., where "they're off" at Narragansett at 1430. Naturally officers don't gamble, but servicemen are admitted free, and watching others get rich on Reyes in the fourth race will be a pleasant pastime...
...Cunning Brethren. Perhaps I should have felt more emotions than I did, riding back with them in that boat: a fierce anger at the "thing" which allows nations and peoples to do this to each other; an urgent personal desire for retaliation; bitterness because they had given their all and reaped this, while some of their more cunning but less conscientious brethren at home were giving nothing and reaping all; horror because of the added indignities they had suffered even after death; sorrow for their parents, for their girls, and for the many people who must grieve and forget...
...Czech and Slovak the word sped across the Carpathians to clandestine radio sets: The fraternal and allied Red Army stands on [your] borders. . . . Welcome your Russian brethren! . . . Arise and fight! . . . Unleash a national guerrilla...
Signs and Silence. To get the Georgia brethren on their feet, Abbot Frederic Mary* Dunne came with the monks from Kentucky. But he will soon leave the Abbey in charge of Father Mary James Fox as superior. As superior, Father Fox is dispensed from the rule of silence, but like other Trappists he is not allowed to face a newscamera. The guestmaster may also speak (to guests) and the procurator may speak to tradesmen. Any monk can speak to the superior, but if he wishes to communicate with a brother he uses a simplified sign language. Only the abbot...
When lean, ruddy, affable Abbot Dunne became abbot in 1935 there were 72 brethren at Gethsemani; today there are 151. Trappists in the U.S. total 275. Most men who enter are quite young (15 to 20). The Order does not normally draw professional men, but Superior Mary James Fox (Harvard '18, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), who entered the Order 17 years ago, worked for the U.S. Treasury, after Naval service during World War I. "I was all ready to become a millionaire," he says, "when I felt a force turning me the other...