Word: broguish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No.1 rosary promoter is big, broguish Father Patrick Peyton, who conducts mass rallies around the world to encourage the use of the rosary in family worship ("The family that prays together stays together"). In San Francisco last week, Father Peyton preached the rosary to some 250,000 people in Golden Gate Park; last year in South America he distributed 1,500,000 rosaries to the poor. Says he: "The rosary has accomplished many great wonders in the world. When recited in the family each day, it is the most powerful weapon in our armory today against the evils that beset...
Died. T/Sgt. Martin Maher, 84, a broguish Irish immigrant whose 50 years of duty at the U.S. Military Academy won him the lifelong affection of West Pointers ranging from John J. Pershing to Dwight Eisenhower, an unprecedented full-dress review of the Corps of Cadets upon his retirement in 1946, and a shiny screen biography (The Long Gray Line) in 1955; of a stroke; at West Point Army Hospital. As a mess waiter, nonswimming swimming coach and gym custodian, Maher was outranked but never outclassed by protégés who worked their way from bars to stars...