Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand at ping-pong...
...favored. In a banquet scene deftly underscored with pity he forces Catherine to sit at the foot of the table, has her Order of St. Catherine taken from her and placed on the breast of his mistress. He tells her sadly of his plan to put her in a convent. Then Catherine realizes she must give in to the officers who want to make her Empress by a coup d'état. Her principal concern is that Peter will not be harmed-a matter which historically bothered Catherine II not at all. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. puts cruelty and craft...
Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach...
Only buildings to escape the scorn of Guth were the Emmanuel Philipp School by Eschweiler & Eschweiler, a hospital from the drawing boards of E. Brielmaier & Sons, a chapel and a Catholic convent by Peter Brust...
...Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count Romero (Walter Connolly), to Manhattan to meet...