Word: dominie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marlene Dietrich is a wealthy orphan named Domini Enfilden, who proposes to the Mother Superior of the convent where she was brought up a difficult question. "What," Domini asks, "am I to do?" "Go away . . . perhaps, to the desert," says the Mother Superior. This is bad advice. First person Domini meets in the desert is Boris Andtovsky (Charles Boyer), a renegade Trappist monk out to discover, after breaking his vow of lifelong silence, just what it is that makes the world go round. When he has scraped acquaintance with Domini in a night club, they go riding. Without telling...
...Omnes sancti Apostoli et Evangelistae, orate pro nobis. Omnes sancti Discipuli Domini, orate pro nobis. Omnes sancti Innocentes, orate pro nobis...
...749th Year of Rome (Anno Urbis Conditae). He could not have been born later because Herod, who sought to have Him slaughtered along with the rest of the Jewish younglings, died the year following. For centuries after Christ's death no one thought to use Anno Domini as the base of a calendar. When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified...
Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created...
...altar bell tinkles and he gazes upon the sacred Host just trans-substantiated between his linger and raises it on high, and you gaze upon it with a gaze of love; and then out goes a cry from the hearts of the believing people, Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest! Let the congregation sing...