Word: convention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although for several years married to a Spaniard, the Marquis de Cienguegos, she had retained her American citizenship and was eventually released after 43 days in a prison that had once been a convent, through the intervention of the United States State Department...
Before a Roman Catholic woman gets her to a nunnery, she must take counsel with the superior of the convent she has chosen. If she appears to have a true vocation, she is admitted to the sisterhood as a postulant, to undergo at least three months of religious life before being professed as a novice. Last week in San Antonio, Tex., when five postulants entered the convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament-a teaching order which has labored ably in the U. S. since 1853-they made news because: 1) they were a mother and four daughters...
...Mary Jones, a widow, and Daughters Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn-so said their friends-had long been ardent Catholics. Mother Joseph of the San Antonio convent confirmed that they had been admitted. At week's end they were still postulants. Miss Jerry McRae, maestra of the Rangerettes, declared she would welcome back Gladys, Hazel, Dorothy and Evelyn Jones if ever they changed their minds...
...outstanding among orders on the distaff side. The French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built on the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., and her cause for beatification was approved by the Church nearly three years ago (TIME, March 25, 1935). Out last week was a readable and exhaustive 809-page chronicle of the order in North America by Mother Louise Callan...
Continuing the interview, Margo describes her innocent school days in a convent. The next scene shows where she really spent them-in a reformatory, where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will...