Word: conventionality
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...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...
...Abbe Lambert Collette turned him away, informing him that his marriage (by a Justice of the Peace) was not recognized by the Catholic Church. Later he was told that Lucile would ask for an annulment. But when Nicol saw her a week or so later in the Convent of the Grey Nuns at Chambly, she seemed to have changed her mind, asked him to arrange a reconciliation with her mother and the priest. When Mme. Labrecque still refused to recognize the marriage, Nicol sued her and Abbe Collette for $2,000. A few days later Lucile hanged herself from...
...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...
...bodies of Castile's ancient rulers are now back in their tombs, dressed this time in the white robes and black hoods of the Cistercians. Their clothes and accouterments, displayed in 18 glass cases, are open to the study of a few visitors, who enter the convent discreetly through a door that the nuns leave "unguarded." Sexton Garcia is pleased with the fruits of his nocturnal curiosity. Says he: "This museum should really bear my name...