Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...odor of sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little Guy, I shall take you; you will die young; you will not be My priest; I desire to make...
Announced Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives: "Not a single passenger was killed in an accident on a train during 1935. . . . This is the first time the railroads have achieved a perfect record...
...subjected to being manacled like a criminal (TIME, Dec. 9). The natives who thus violated international comity contended that the Great Khan's car had been speeding. When he produced his diplomatic credentials, saying "I am the Minister of Iran," they, in abysmal ignorance, exclaimed: "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher." The Great Khan was avenged to the extent that Elkton's Town Council, under pressure from the U. S. State Department, fired the policeman who perpetrated this outrage. Constable Clayton L. Ellison. Last week Iran was incensed to learn that Elkton had stealthily rehired Constable...
Calling at the chambers of the Missouri Supreme Court, Governor Guy Brasfield Park found one of the justices on the floor working feverishly to assemble his small son's electric train in time for Christmas. Sympathetic, the Governor squatted on his haunches, assembled the train, sent it zipping around the chambers for an hour and a half...
...Victoria every flag in the British Empire went to half staff; the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Gloucester canceled a shooting trip; peers put away their golden coronets, peeresses their tiaras and Parliament was opened in drab mourning. For the first time British historians could remember since the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel...