Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with her regular treatment, Joey began her investment. It had been a long time since her student days in a Manila convent. The return to books was not easy. She plunged into a schedule of classes that lasted from 8:30 in the morning until midafternoon, five days a week, with every seventh week off for a rest...
...tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time, overwork broke her health, and she found rest in a Roman Catholic convent in France (she was a nondenominational Christian). She lived there in a white-walled, cell-like room, which she later had reproduced in her own palatial Long Island home...
...objection was not so much that he had printed a picture of a girl with no clothes on, but that the picture included the convent-educated daughter of Miguel Aleman, who still has a lot of influential friends in Mexico. For years, Mexican publications had hardly printed anything but carefully posed shots of the Aleman family, and ignored the President's lively interest in a succession of actresses and other beauties. Hoy's publisher rapped Editor Pages sharply over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including...
Foucauld was something of a problem monk. Postponing his ordination as a priest, he spent three years as a menial for an abbess of a convent at Nazareth...
...days he spent a lot of time at a bar table, occasionally speaking in a low voice to chance acquaintances. Soon shifty-eyed visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned...