Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...Benedictine monk, Dom Aelred Graham of Ampleforth Abbey, rushed to the Pope's defense: "His Holiness does no more than proclaim New Testament Christianity: see Matthew 5:44.* This was the message expounded from the higher level of the cross: see Luke 23:34.† That Mr. Herbert detects in this feebleness of mind sets one wondering! There come to remembrance some striking words of St. Paul very much to the point: see I Corinthians...
Replied Author Herbert in his second volley to the Times: "It is idle for the Rev. Dom Aelred Graham, the Pope, or anyone else to fling such texts at the British people and expect them to be followed literally as guides to conduct after five years of bloody war against a Satanic foe. And which texts are we to follow? What about Matthew 5:39-'Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also'? Should we never have gone...
...line-up at the Norfolk Naval Training Station includes Phil Rizzuto, Don Padgett, Dom Di Maggio, Benny McCoy...
...service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller, the Sailors have Tom Earley (Braves), Walter Masterson (Senators) and Fred Hutchinson (Tigers...