Word: crassness
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...candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing of sacred functions, no exuberant decking of shrines with garish artificial flowers. Said Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani: "The present...
...likes especially the traditions, now fast fading, which cling around the College Yard. For him each one as it passes is a laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...
...succeeding years Helen Gould endeavored to better her father's reputation. This was difficult; but her almost angelic piety, against the crass background of rich Manhattan 20 years ago, almost accomplished it. Today Mrs. Shepard has only a few millions. She has given away many: to hospitals, to educational institutions, to the New York Hall of Fame, to Spanish-American and World War funds. Every week, applications for money come in to her busy secretaries. Simply, almost dowdily dressed, Mrs. Shepard goes out seldom socially (and then in an outmoded automobile) and occupies herself with what may be called...
...York one day last week. It was splendid, thought the Press, to have called special Sunday services of "intercession." Every-one appreciated that the aid of God was required to help the British nation out of Depression. But it was shocking to have published a prayer couched in such crass terms of suppliance as these: "In the policy of our government for the restoration of credit and prosperity, Thy will be done. "Because we have been selfish in our conduct of business, setting our own interest and that of our class before the interest of others, forgive us our trespasses...
...which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...