Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement. The Czar understands that Christ will soon return for seven days, wants to offer him one orange for each meal...
...general elections of 1937. Curtin held the Bible high while his old friend, Chief Justice Sir John Latham prepared to intone the oath. Dignified Sir John was startled when Curtin leaned forward to inquire softly: "Do you remember the old days, John, when we both used to give Christ hell...
...Hoodlum Saint (M.G.M.) will be based on the life of the late Dempster MacMurphy who, feeling that Repentant Thief St. Dismas never got full credit for his virtue (despite Christ's explicit "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise"). acted as a one-man press bureau for the Saint. Father Edward Dowling, close friend of MacMurphy and editor of Queen's Work, is collaborating on the script with Writer Casey Robinson...
...timing was dramatic. Last week, for the Christian world, was Holy Week -the seven most holy of Lent's 40 days in which are solemnized Christ's temptation in the wilderness, His agony before and during the Crucifixion, culminating in the promise of the Resurrection. Last week the agony of Holy Week was shared by the human race. There was scarcely a man, woman or child anywhere who, in the degree to which the war directly touched him, or the degree to which he was capable of compassion, did not suffer a personal Golgotha, did not share...
...long trip in the opposite direction-to Moscow, to give the hand of traditional ecumenical brotherhood to Russia's newly reinstated Patriarch. (Last week Patriarch Sergei gave the back of his hand to Pius XII, declared, in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, that the Pope is not Christ's Vicar on earth...