Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirlwind one-month, 10,000-mile U.S.-Canada tour, on which he visited the White House, got honorary degrees from Columbia, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that his public utterances had averaged 1.95 per diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted the shot, captioned it "A Picture We Never Thought We Should...
...thoughts: "Britain, as much as any nation of the modern world, has learned the Roman lesson and followed in the Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people...
...Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
Saintly Mystic. Mother Cabrini had her Mary as well as her Martha side. From childhood she had the mystic's hunger for communion with God that gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept...
...wealthier classes took in the Braves' double-header with the Phillies. One eager Anthropology student is reported to have wandered off in search of a zoo. But the overwhelming majority were to be found in the basement of McBride's in spiritual communion with a glass of schnapps...