Word: cumberlandism
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...tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain...
...Internal Revenue Joseph V. Broderick. Before long Justice Herbert L. Carpenter called attorneys for both sides before him, suggested that plaintiff's case was not impressing him. By general agreement he discontinued the suit, charging costs to the plaintiff. Back to the silence of their ridge in Cumberland went Brother Hugh and Father Aëlred...
...campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march, a grudge at troopers and gunners and wagoneers, a surfeit of hills and towns and faces and sunshine and rain of the Cumberland Valley. It was too many men and too few women, it was homesickness and yet wanderlust, and a cut finger which was slow to heal...
From this White Paper the House of Commons learned that in the year ending Jan. 1, 1937 unemployment was reduced by 30% in Scotland, the Tyneside and Durham areas; by 20% in South Wales and Monmouthshire; and in West Cumberland by 10%-a record supposed to vindicate His Majesty's Government on the do-nothing charge. Next the House of Commons was told last week that the ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) recently given by Lord Nuffield ("Henry Ford of Great Britain") to succor the Depressed Areas and as a personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME...
Three evenings later the wedding guests in Cumberland Church heard Minister Johnson invoke the usual blessings upon all the assembled. Whispers ran through the pews when he said: "We are gathered together for the announcement of the wedding of this man and this woman." Surprise, bewilderment, and finally the relief of comprehension followed as those not in on the secret listened to the following...