Word: conventionality
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George Lemesneger, Los Angeles winemaker and realtor, died in 1926. One of his three daughters was Sister Philomene of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in St. Louis. Released of her vows she went to California, as Miss Jeanne Lemesneger, to settle the estate (valued between $5,000,000 and $8,000,000). Last week it was learned that she had inherited some $1,500,000, that she would return to convent life...
...Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
Crêpes du convent...
...rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...
...daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...