Word: grotto
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...Lady. Bernadette Soubirous was born on a Jan. 7, which was the birth date also of Jeanne d'Arc. On Feb. 11, 1858, a backward, asthmatic girl of 14, she beheld, in a swine-fouled little grotto near Lourdes, a dainty, gay and ineffably dressed young lady who talked and gestured with her in the silence of her enchanted heart. During the next few weeks Bernadette saw her many times, though the lady was invisible to the increasing hundreds (Bernadette had talked) who gathered at the grotto...
...conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639) and avowed its contents onto the flames, which immediately went...
...hanging on to his sexual potency, desperately afraid of its loss, of age, of death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey's optimistic phrase, "death might be indefinitely postponed...
...evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
...pilgrims, reporters, priests, nuns watched Fred Snite eagerly, day after day, as he attended Masses. Few saw him, however, when twice he was taken from his respirator, wrapped in a towel, placed in a 7-by-3 ft. basin in a bathhouse, to which the healing waters of the grotto are piped. Each time Fred Snite lay in the icy water for half an hour (he can now breathe for an hour without mechanical...