Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year was 1914 and Monica Baldwin was 17 when she took the veil of a Roman Catholic religious order and vanished behind convent walls. Ten years later she began to think she had made a mistake. Nevertheless, for 18 years more of inward strain and stress she lived the life of the convent...
...even "flung my bonnet over the windmill and accepted a cigarette." Except that she had trouble balancing herself on high heels, the nun had become as much a woman of the world as she cared to be. At present, still as devout as when she first entered the convent, she is living in the country...
...Dominguín from his guest list. Off went Dominguín to fight bulls in Mexico. He wrote Angelita a letter which fell into the hands of the duke. Don Carlos did what irate fathers always do in zarzuelas: he threatened to pack Angelita off to a convent. To a friend the duke explained: "Mind you, I like Dominguín. He is a fine torero. He has the heart of a lion and the legs of a deer. What's more, he will probably end up much richer than I am. But there is one thing...
Intense, thin-faced May Foster hopes to go into a convent, but she is waiting for a year to wind up their worldly affairs and make sure her husband is well started on his new road. Says the wife who may never see her husband again after this week: "Some people think I'm terrible, letting him go off like this after all these years of marriage, but it's God's will. Besides, if I could give him to his country, never knowing that he'd get back from the Leyte invasion...
...Velvet Giove (by Rosemary Casey; produced by Guthrie McClintic) describes a most politely conducted battle. The opponents are a mother-general (Grace George) and a bishop (John Williams), and their battlefield is a convent. They are at odds over a young professor in the convent college whose Christian ideas about the obligations of wealth seem Communistic to a few moneybags in the diocese. The moneybags want the professor fired, and the bishop-whose causes they endow-agrees. As the professor's chief defender, the mother-general adopts the defense of beating the bishop at his own game. She sees...