Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidently denied, Pope Pius XI will promulgate this year. This dogma would raise the Blessed Virgin to an even higher place in Catholic thought than she now occupies. According to one view, it will establish her on the throne of Heaven equal with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...loved the girl whom his brother Pedro had successfully wooed, and one day while the lilting strains of the Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman...
...remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth Amendment was passed...
...which met in Dallas, Texas, on November 14, issued a Pastoral Letter which is causing the present discussion within the Episcopal Church. The Pastoral Letter implies that a strict construction of the Apostle's Creed is alone permissable, particularly a strict construction of the clause 'conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary...
...days of the bygone Terror. The rightful mistress of the farm was lovely Arlette, whom the village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...