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...they could cadge from charity. The sisters were to live little better than the poor they served. They were allowed only two of the humble saris (which still cost only $1) so that they could honestly teach that it is possible to stay clean with a single change of garment. Life became only slightly less precarious in 1950, when the Vatican approved their new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, and they moved into quarters that still serve as the mother house...
...that. Next month you, as an actor, can be somebody's uncle, and the month after that a Chinaman, and that's an advantage. There are times when your life is suffused with bitterness and misery so that you can hardly endure to wear this particularly uncomfortable garment called life. I have been so wretched at times that I felt completely out of contact with reality. When I went on in a part in the nighttime, that was the only time I really felt Like myself...
...made of-that had three-and four-figure price tags. Fur sales in specialty shops and department stores across the U.S. plunged, and many firms went out of business altogether. In just two years, nearly half of the 2,000 fur wholesalers and suppliers clustered in Manhattan's garment district, the center of the U.S. fur trade, closed up shop or merged with other furriers...
...understand what racism means," said Barbados Ambassador Waldo Waldron-Ramsey, who pleaded with the Arabs to withdraw their resolution. Of 36 black African nations, only 16 supported the measure. There were hopes that African support might further dwindle before the General Assembly vote. If not, warned U.S. Delegate Leonard Garment, "the work of the U.N. is in jeopardy...
...sermons are art historians searching for iconographic clues to his paintings. One example: "Finally, my friends, farewell! May the melancholy be encouraged and the sanguine quieted; may the phlegmatic be tendered and the choleric humbled; may self be denied and the cross of Christ worn as a daily garment; may His peaceable kingdom forever be established in the rational, immortal soul." To Hicks' own mind, the clues were all meant quite literally. In a sermon at Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, he explained that the traditional four humors common to all mankind can be symbolized by specific beasts...