Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entering Cambridge for the first time, the student cannot help but be impressd with the history and tradition that surrounds him. It won't be long, for example, before he discovers Wadsworth House, General Washington's headquarters; Massachusetts Hall, the oldest University building (1720); and Holden Chapel, where the Massachusetts legislature met for a time during the Revolution...
...mentioned by Moderator Virgilio Sommani in his list of faiths at whose disposal the Waldensian churches were placed was the Jewish faith. We held regular Friday night and also holiday services in the little Protestant chapel in Cerignola, and sometimes the Waldensian members would come in and watch...
Ryder made a last desperate snatch at life by falling in love with Lady Julia; lawyers coldly set in motion the legal wheels of divorce that would enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came...
...atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel moderation: "Rather, build a chapel next to the church, and put your wife in it; whoever goes to Mass is to spit in her face...
...Phillips said in his New York Sun column Saturday, New Haven was just as chaotic and traditional this year as it was before the war. The drunks were there, so were the raccoon coats, and the Taft lobby was jammed solid. The open trolleys were out in flocks on Chapel Street, too, with their ex-acrobat conductors swinging along the sides picking up fares...