Word: conventionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
OXON HILL, MD, -- The grief-stricken mother of 18-year-old Mary Brown, convent student kidnaped near her home late yesterday, made another radio appeal to the abductors tonight, pleading with them to "return my child unharmed...
...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...
...hard to be a mother and an executive at the same time. He says it is nobody's g_ _ d_ _ _ business whether he is en gaged, as reported last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl whose legend starts from a convent and includes a Broadway chorus, luxurious homes in Paris and Southampton, sculp ture, breeding wire-haired dachshunds, life as an artist's wife (the late Gardner Hale, muralist) and the movies...
...year cruise. Frantically impatient to see his mother, William jumped into a small boat, pulled furiously for the land, leaped ashore, rode day and night, by carriage, coach and wagon, to Emmitsburg. He ran the last two miles, up & down hill, only to find, when he arrived at the convent, that his tuberculous mother had been six months dead...