Word: gori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Custody still stands. Last week the 151st Franciscan Custos (custodian), arrived in Washington, D.C. for a visit. A merry, bespectacled, red-bearded Italian, Most Rev. Albert Gori, the Custos (also called "His Paternity") put up at the Franciscan monastery of Mt. St. Sepulchre. There he was visited by many a priest, including well-waisted Rector Joseph M. Corrigan of nearby Catholic University. Object of His Paternity's trip to the U.S.: to thank U.S. givers, to rally more givers to the Holy Land shrines. The Washington monastery, called the Commissariat and College of the Holy Land for the U.S.A...
...This was at Tiflis, where, as every Rus sian knows, the Dictator's mother lives in two rooms of the Palace of the former Tsarist Governor of Georgia, now a Soviet Republic (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Questing on to find Josef Stalin's birthplace in near by Gori, Camerawoman Margaret Bourke-White was shown a hole in the ground. In this hole, commodious enough once one walks in, still lives Stalin's great-aunt. After merrymaking over bread and wine, she raised her glass, gave this thoughtful toast: "To the honored guest! To the illustrious relative...
STALIN, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili; b. Gori, Tiflis Province 1879; m. Nadejda Sergeyevna Alleluya...
...want you to correct one thing," said Mme Dzhugashvili, manifesting some excitement. "They talk a lot about Soso's being born in Lilo, but that's entirely wrong! . . . Soso was born in Gori. . . . I'm his mother and I ought to know! . . . Soso will be 51 eight days after Christmas old style. I don't know what date it would be by the new way of reckoning.* I never could learn...