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Some orders, like the Benedictines and Ursulines, devote themselves chiefly to education. Sisters comprise the faculties of most U.S. parochial schools, with their convent often next to the school and as much a part of the parish plant as church and rectory. Other orders, like the Dominicans and Sisters of Mercy, are less cloistered and spend their time aiding the poor, sick, orphaned...
Isabel Arundell was a poor-relation of a great Roman Catholic family, convent-schooled, country-bred. At 16 she soaked her brain in the Orientalisms of Disraeli's novel Tancred (which she reread constantly all her life); and at 16 she was deeply impressed by the following prophecy, .from the lips of a gypsy named Hagar Burton...
Died. Ex-Queen Natalie of Serbia, 82; in the convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion in Paris. Daughter of a Russian colonel and Rumanian princess, she married Prince Milan of Serbia at 16, bore Prince Alexander at 17, became Queen at 23. The dissipations and amours of her husband drove her to flee the country with Alexander, whom Milan soon kidnapped. Then Milan set Alexander on the throne at 13, retired to Paris, died in 1901. Natalie returned to Belgrade after her son married Draga Mashin, widow of an engineer, whom it was supposed Draga had poisoned. Officers...
...another children's play she met a lisping small boy named Noel Coward. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia Conti's London school. She had cards printed reading Miss Gertie Lawrence, Child Actress and Toe Dancer...
...calendar. Suggesting that Roosevelt planned a Hitlerized U. S., he accused the President of secretly planning work camps, waiting only for re-election to put them in force. Said Barton: "It will mean that your son and daughter at 18 will be lifted out of school or convent and put into a Government camp supervised by an impersonal and irreligious Government bureaucracy...