Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner of Jefferson and Fourth. She sang at church socials ("Dolly was a barrel of fun"), faithfully turned up at the Democratic political meetings, and assisted at a lot of neighborhood births. In a few years she was a power in her part of town, and in 1909 Mayor Griffin made her district leader. In 1926 Mayor Bernard L. McFeeley, the political boss of Hoboken for 30 years, appointed her husband to a captaincy in the fire department...
...Irish hierarchy will work with Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, in carrying out their plan. Recently Cardinal Griffin issued a pastoral letter warning young Irish to arrange for a job, lodging and contact with their countrymen before going to England. He also authorized a pool of missionaries from all the principal religious orders in Ireland, plans to spread them through the big cities beginning this fall to conduct missions among expatriates. By winning back many of the Irish and reimposing a few of the old rules from back home, the missionaries hope to have more apostles, fewer apostates...
...Portrait, a play by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen that ran for 14 weeks on Broadway in 1939 and for four weeks in London in 1948. Theme of the play: the hostility and lack of comprehension by Jesus' brothers to His mission. Britain's Bernard Cardinal Griffin lost no time in protesting that the play's assumption that Jesus had blood brothers "is contrary to sound scholarship and the belief of all Christian bodies." "Blasphemy," stormed the Catholic paper Universe. "Cast aside was the age-old belief of the Christian world in Our Lady...
...Lilly (drugs) have all found use for handicapped workers; electronic firms such as RCA, Western Electric, General Electric are using them to assemble delicate TV and radar circuits. At Lockheed's big plant at Marietta, Ga., the company last year saved $65,000 by employing a Griffin, Ga. workshop for the blind to pick over the factory sweepings, salvage thousands of tiny nuts, washers and screws that fell to the floor below its B-47 production line. On the record, handicapped workers are pulling their own weight in U.S. industry, and there are millions more who are willing...
Readers may also join the lively game that Translator White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...