Word: communion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dame Sybil in The Distaff Side is the keystone of an upper middle-class family of women. To her ancient and churlish mother (Mildred Natwick) she shows unremitting forbearance. To her fretful and uncertain sisters and daughter she imparts a philosophy distilled from long and loving communion with her late husband. One by one problems are solved. The daughter (Viola Keats) leaves the man who can further her ambitions for the man she loves. One sister (Estelle Wynwood) foregoes an unseemly dalliance, returns to the old romance that time has almost staled. The other sister (Viola Roache) finds it easier...
...religion. His students think he knows everything and their elders, marveling at his encyclopedic mind, are inclined to agree. Every evening he has spent long hours giving advice on religion, money, careers and love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given communion. He is tall, grey-fringed, smiling, athletic. His day begins at 4:30 a. m. with a cold shower, includes, summer & winter, an afternoon swim in the campus lake, an evening stroll...
...since been jampacked every Sunday by worshippers hoping to see the President again, but not until March a year later was their curiosity satisfied. His only other appearance in church in Washington was on Easter 1933, when he attended Washington Cathedral. Bishop Freeman and the Cathedral dean gave communion to the President in his pew while Mrs. Roosevelt partook kneeling at the altar rail. On Easter 1934, President Roosevelt held regulation naval services on the Nourmahal on which he was cruising with Vincent Astor...
...before which the first Maryland mass was sung. In the stands behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby hill when Archbishop Curley held aloft the consecrated particle...
...tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women in poke bonnets and long capes. Watched by 12,000 spectators, they held mass communion in a big tent, first washing their feet, then sitting at long tables to break bread and pass the wine goblet from hand to hand. By the tenets of their faith, sinful Dunkers refrained from partaking. Later all dined on ten head of cattle. Unitarians of the American Unitarian Association...