Word: christianae
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...tiny Christ Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere...
...Summit all up. . . . Oh Christiana, Stem it all. . . . Woodstock if I could but it Snow use, skiing stinkin...
...traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there forgotten until...
...weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...
...rate. Soon there was scarcely a man in college without his pair of skis, and the highways and byways around Hanover were all given over to the demands of this new sport. Several different kinds of skis appeared, old too straps gave place to daredevil harnesses, and "telemark" and "christiana" turns became topics of general discussion. It is said that the college had never fallen so quickly for any other new sport as it did in 1910 for skiing...