Word: fabricate
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...from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th centenary of the Crucifixion and Easter marked...
...Lords!" cried he, "properly carried out in the married state, birth control is not only necessary, but is a part of our social fabric. To oppose it is just to beat the air. We can no longer have the large families of Victorian days...
...accept the Fascist doctrine in toto. One may, accordingly, look for the disappearance of Dollfuss's party in the near future; and, I think that it is also extremely likely that Dollfuss himself will soon follow it into oblivion, for the Heimwehr will eventually be absorbed into the larger fabric of Italian or German Fascism, and the little chancellor will then find that he will be no longer needed. Two other causes also make his continuance in power a highly dubious matter. The first is the fact that he has by his actions alienated the sympathy of the rest...
...Manhattan, the Federal Council of Churches issued a "Summons to Spiritual Advance'' signed by heads of 30 Protestant denominations aggregating more than 27,000,000 members. Declaring that "we rejoice in every evidence that great social ideals of Christianity are being woven into the fabric of our national life," the statement urged that "alongside all plans for recovery that are made in our economic and industrial life there should be a nationwide effort for moral and spiritual recovery and advance...
...ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold lace and jewels. Bishop Perry followed along, unmindful of alarums raised by his church's Protestant "gadfly," Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (TIME, Oct. 30). Bishop Perry insisted that he represented the whole Episcopal Church and would continue...