Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of his long life (1379-80 to 1471), Thomas prayed and meditated, instructed novices and meticulously copied texts, while outside his Low Countries cloister raged the great upheavals of the time. On his tomb in The Netherlands is carved a Latin inscription: To the honor, not to the memory of Thomas à Kempis, whose name is more enduring than any monument...
Tydings: You went into the privacy of your own cloister to write that in the secrecy of your own diary, didn...
...Pisa, the famed Leaning Tower was lopsided as ever, but the medieval cloister and burial ground, Campo Santo (one star), had its roof destroyed, ruining the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli...
...Atmospheric Conditions. The Navy, for that matter, had been an experiment with Miss Mac. As she once declared, possibly with tongue in cheek, "Life in the Navy has taken me out of the cloister in which a woman was unaware of limitations on her freedom or individuality, and has thrust me into the big world where women are women and men are men." She had emerged into what she called "this bifurcated society" like a discoverer and without even the seafaring background of Miss Reynard, whose grandfather had been the captain of a whaling ship...
...afternoons the Governor, his wife and two sons swam in the Atlantic surf and sunned on the deck beside the Casino swimming pool. When it was time for a change, they put on sports clothes and ate dinner in the big, patio-styled Cloister. They retired early to their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed...