Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...1000th anniversary of St. Wenceslas, patron of Czechoslovakia and famed in Bohemian legends. While the festival over "Good King Wenceslas" has been in progress since May, last week was a most appropriate time for the Pope's presentation, since on the following day was opened the restored Church of St. Vitus, supposedly begun by St. Wenceslas and the place to which his body was brought a few years after he was murdered at the age of 20 by his brother, Boleslav the Cruel...
...Catholic church will increase in power in America. . . . It keeps a stronger hold on its children. They breed faster...
...Royal Scandal (German). Nobody in the little Bavarian town had noticed Frau Jugo until her drawers fell down one day in front of a church. As a partial result of this event her husband inexplicably received a medal from the local prince. Although the comedy is at times heavy and overplayed, in the approved Teutonic manner, it is at other times genuinely funny. Best shots: how a Bavarian Babbitt behaves in his office...
...Peoria, Ill., a drugstore advertised dollar bills on sale at 89c each. Four hours elapsed, many saw, passed by. A Scotch barber, on his way to church, entered, bought...
...Author. Herbert Asbury, 38, Missouri-born, is a descendant of Bishop Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion...