Word: cyprians
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...cast will be made up of numerous chorus "girls," pirates, and stokers, as well as the following: Willie Porter R. S. Hewlett '33 Bob Holden J. H. Leatherbee '33 Shirley W. F. Draper '35 Professor Crawfish Robert Breckenridge '34 Cyprian (professor's young son) J. T. Dennison '34 Bertram Bannister (pirate chief) A. M. Jones, Jr. '35 Twitter W. A. Munroe '33 Aunt Caroline Albert Pratt '33 Bartender Stuart Scott '33 Steward W. B. Cudahy...
...stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs destroyed Carthage, a waning community...
...propaganda, Newman became so extreme an Anglo-Catholic that it was not long before he went the whole way and entered the Roman Catholic Church. He took many followers with him, but some balked. Said he: "A person in Devonshire is all but made up?he sticks at St. Cyprian. . . ." Newman's reception was chilly, to say the least; the Pope sent him congratulations on recovering from a wretched heresy. For years he was looked upon with suspicion by his new superiors, his suggestions ignored, his plans thwarted. In 1848 he was put in charge of a mission in Birmingham...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...
...Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...