Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent survey by the American Alumni Council reveals that the University ran fourth behind Yale, Wellesley and Notre Dame in alumni gifts during the past year...
...Catholics make up only 8% of the world's Catholic population, but they are the free-currency mainstay of the Vatican's finances; they also provide nearly 20% of the world membership in Catholic religious communities. Last week, on the lakeside campus of the University of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind., 1,978 superiors and other officials of religious orders in the U.S. gathered for four days in the largest congress of religious orders in the church's history. They represented a total of 157,000 nuns, 44,000 priests and 8,000 lay brothers...
...congress which is both genuinely religious and typically American." The overtones of the convention were simon-pure American, down to name badges for the delegates, a humorously written guide book, and a meeting place in a vast, Quonset-type building draped with U.S. flags and the Notre Dame college colors. Although there was no doubting the basic orthodoxy of the delegates' theology, some of the sentiments expressed would have sounded odd in conservative quarters of the Vatican, and downright heretical in Cardinal Segura's Seville (see below...
...enlisted as a poilu, later volunteered for the French Commandos. He was seriously wounded, twice captured by the Germans (both times he managed to get away) and became Chaplain General of the Resistance. At the liberation of Paris, while German snipers were still firing inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he welcomed General de Gaulle into the church for a service of Thanksgiving. His wartime heroism was rewarded with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor...
...first appearance since 1950's Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson seems to be giving a devastating imitation of herself in that picture, including lacquered profile, smoked glasses, fluttering eyelashes and grande dame mannerisms...