Word: clavering
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...high point of Victorian morality, but even the recent revival has been almost entirely an eclectic re-creation of Gothic, Byzantine, or Christopher Wren inspirations. Only in the past few years, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Community Church for Kansas City, the Albert Hoffmann-designed St. Peter Claver Mission (Negro Catholic) at Montclair, N. J., the modern Catholic churches of Barry Byrne, a sprinkling of others, has the Church moved to resume its ancient place as the patron of creative architecture...
Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...
...South American Saints include: St. Rose of Lima, Peru, first all American saint. Patroness of South America (1586-1617); St. Francis Solano. also of Lima ("The Wonder Worker of the New World"); St. Peter Claver (baptized 300,000 South American Negroes); St. Toribio (Archbishop of Lima...
This has been criticized as a claver but patronizing estimate, but it indicates what is generally admitted to be Mr. Denby's outstanding quality, loyalty. The threads of loyalty and enthusiasm, intertwined, reappear continually in his history...
...very even. In the second half the Freshman attack was more untied and they played a faster game. A goal was made by Leslie, quickly followed by another by Dick, both being the result of individual work. Then Foster carried the puck down the rink unaided and made a claver pass to Dick, who scored. The last goal for Harvard was made by Dick on a clean shot from the middle of the rink. In the last fifteen seconds of play Deming broke through the Freshman defense and scored the only goal for Yale...