Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently to forestall an appeal, Justice Carew neither sustained nor dismissed the writ of habeas corpus by which Mrs. Vanderbilt sought to get her daughter back from Mrs. Whitney. Instead he made Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court of New York, appointed Mrs. Whitney her custodian as the Court...
Zweig is neither Catholic nor Protestant so his approach is reasonably objective and his work is free from the heavy touch of axe-grinding. His perceptive style is devoid of superfluities and the work is one of stimulating scholarships.
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of...
Justice Carew knew what Gloria herself wanted him to decide. Wide apart as were their worlds, he had had no trouble drawing the child out in their private heart-to-heart. He has raised three sons, two daughters of his own. A Columbia College and Law School graduate who still...
In their three-hour chat Justice Carew found Gloria letter-perfect in both the Protestant "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" and Lord's Prayer and in the Catholic "Hail Mary." He also found that she decidedly wanted to stay with her Aunt Gertrude. It was not that...