Word: capuchins
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...Czechoslovakia, two Capuchin monks were arrested for "antistate activity." In the past fortnight 23 priests and nuns have been arrested...
...British Field Marshal Montgomery. His army was a motley crew consisting of Hamet, some 90 of his Arab followers, seven U.S. marines under Lieut. Presley O'Bannon, 40-odd cutthroat Greeks and Italians recruited in Alexandria, an Italian "chief of engineers" (who had been by turns a Capuchin monk, an Indian dervish and a soldier of fortune) and a caravan of 190 camels at $11 a camel...
...piles had penetrated into every corner of the kingdom of France. To rally the Cardinal during his hemorrhoidal depressions, there used to pad into his room one of the most mysterious, potent and least known of Europe's great power politicians. He was His Grey Eminence, the barefoot Capuchin friar. Father Joseph-for some 20 years Richelieu's second brain...
...appalled by his own concupiscence, he was driven to religion. "I do not care to see the sex," he said later, "except shut up and curtained from sight, like so many mysteries not to be regarded save with a kind of horror." As a Capuchin, his "Spartan taste for the uncomfortable," made him prefer to pray standing, barefoot, on the stone floor. When he became sleepy and tired, he stood...
...high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian officer in a fever of hurry and worry...