Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant shot keynoted the early stages of the rioting: the rifle shot that a fortnight ago killed Bridget Ann Timbers, an American nun, outside the convent in Ismailia where she had been stationed. The nun's death, for which each side blamed the other, was followed by bloody rioting in Ismailia, and a ruthless house-to-house search by the British for guerrillas and hidden weapons...
Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...
Margaret plays a sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the convent--the sooner the better...
...Barracks. Most rhymes, the Opies learned, were never intended for children. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" was a 17th Century Popish prayer; "Go to bed, Tom" was once a barracks ditty. "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" possibly had a "religious background ... 'a word-picture of Our Lady's Convent' . . . the bells being the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims, and the pretty maids the nuns...
...active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent for throwing an inkwell at the mother superior, her year's work in a pottery factory ("to get to know people better"), her melodramatic escape from a Turkish ship during the Spanish civil war, her five years of active struggle against the Franco regime...