Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to have been stationed permanently by the altar rails of St. Peter's in Rome, armed with rakes to scrape up the gold, silver and precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...
About the time of Christ, he died in a valley near Pisco,* on the coast of southern Peru. He was probably a high priest or a chieftain because his honored body had been carefully wrapped in layers & layers of cloth and buried far out on a barren desert. As the centuries passed, his people were killed or dispersed and all memory of them vanished. Last week his mummy, unwrapped with loving care at New York's American Museum of Natural History, showed what an odd and gorgeous culture had flowered in a desert-ringed Peruvian valley 20 centuries...
Maids will continue to take care of public rooms, bathrooms, and corridors but will only be on bell duty from 7:30 to 9 a.m. daily. Two maids will supervise dining room and pantry operations...
Students will have full care of their rooms and will be responsible for increased amounts of pantry work, bell duty, and table-waiting. Under last year's program, girls handled three hours' worth of bells and kitchen duty weekly. This year the maximum duty for each girl will be five hours per week and will run somewhat less in the larger halls...
...good deal of care and talent have been lavished on the Garden. Aside from Principals O'Brien and Stockwell, who handle their tears and tantrums with equal facility, there are good performances by Herbert Marshall, Elsa Lanchester as a chuckleheaded Yorkshire maid, and Reginald Owen as a grumpy old gardener...