Word: cardinalate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Acquisitiveness had shaped him from the beginning. There was acquisition, first of money, then of beautiful things. John Pierpont Morgan, too, was acquisitive, with the vehemence that made him grip life with both hands like a vase that must be held to be admired. Mr. Morgan had a very great...
Sixth Game. Awkward Gehrig reached for a curve. Koenig watched three strikes go by. Collins, getting into the game in the ninth with his team eight runs behind, swung three times at nothing. These and other able Yankee gentlemen fell victims to the wiles of a man whom the sports...
How in the praise of God he put away the comforts of man's life is known to all, but who can tell what spirit prompted him, what spirits battled in his ghostly heart? Surely, when he tossed in the attic at Assisi, a voice spoke to him, and...
As the bleached relics were paraded through the drizzly streets of Warsaw, 200,000 church dignitaries, Catholic societies, humble worshipers led by Cardinal Alexander Kakowski walked through the streets gleaming in the garish flicker of flambeaux and lanterns. Finally the precious saintly casket was taken to the vieux carré...
Jinx One Lester Price, 23, ambled through Philadelphia's narrow streets. He was hungry, tired, and just after passing a cathedral's steps he noted a door open in a nearby residence. He entered, slept, awoke hours later, beheld a safe the lock of which opened readily. He...