Word: cloistering
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When the Abbey was hit in the blitz last May, Canon Barry's house in the adjoining cloister was completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there...
...amusements, occupations and freedom of action in general. When women as a whole were kept in the home and subjected to strict discipline, either by fathers and mothers or by their husbands, there was not so much difference relatively between their life at home and the life of the cloister. Time has changed all that, and girls who enter Religion now show a courage and spirit of self-sacrifice which is truly notable...
Philadelphia's second-floor galleries are a series of period rooms, christened the "Main Street of the Ages." They range from a medieval cloister to a Pennsylvania Dutch parlor. On the first floor are the supplementary study collections: ceramics, glass, textiles, laces, metals, ivories, etc. The period rooms are the museum's pride. One of Director Kimball's favorites is an English Tudor room from a hunting lodge of Henry VIII. Its donor, staid Publisher William L. McLean of the staid Philadelphia Bulletin, would turn in his grave if he could hear genial Fiske Kimball halt...
Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read the Sunday funnies. Since those days, many an NBC announcer has come & gone, but Milton Cross is still on the job, an NBC standby...
...moved Widow Field that at last she consented to the transfer. Poet Field's remains were placed in a handsome granite tomb in the Holy Comforter garden. Father Danforth acquired some Fieldiana, including the poet's wedding ring, put up two tablets to Field in the cloister, had the Widow Field buried near her husband...