Word: convention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempted to murder Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski; Poland's second President, Jan Wojciechowski; the Minister of Commerce and Industry Eugene Kwiatkowski; has succeeded in murdering a State official, one Sobinski. Last week the Umo added to its reputation by burning a Franciscan convent and 60 farms...
...Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London...
...Virginia Military Institute. Last year he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts in Baltimore, where he was also an instructor in cast drawing. Twice before he has won traveling scholarships. When they learned that he was executing a St. Francis, the nuns of Norfolk's Franciscan Convent were led in pious procession by their Mother Superior to Sculptor Simpson's studio. Though he is not a Catholic, many of Sculptor Simpson's Catholic friends promised to say masses for his success...
Jonica is musical comedy at $3.50 top concerning a cute girl who journeys from a convent to attend a wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...mysteriously salable banalities of musical comedy are further exemplified in Jonica by a song entitled "I Want Someone," the queer facial contortions of Joyce Barbour, who really can be pretty, and a wedding parade in which the girl from the convent is propelled, by coincidence, into matrimony...