Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of it has been undisturbed for years. One of the rooms, which is filled most of the time, will hold 140,000 pounds of paper. Beyond another doorway is the Loeb Classical Library, in which are stored for sale imported translations of the famous classical authors, a veritable heaven for the College Tutoring Bureau...
Yesterday the reporters were able to accept this as merely an inevitable setback in the pursuit of news. After all, Casey's sudden coldness was news in itself. It was just a case of "Why dost thou act so strange, my Edward, and I hope to Heaven that you quit fooling by tomorrow...
...robed Cardinals celebrated mass. Well-drilled, the 110,000 moppets rose, genuflected and crossed themselves in unison. When the moment came to partake of the consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven!" Afterwards, efficient nuns briskly served the children with hot chocolate and cakes. When the four Cardinals beheld this, they too wished to break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate and cakes were served them on their thrones. Next day was Columbus Day, celebrated in Latin America...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...
...heaven, Mrs. Massey assured him, all are equal. Replied the Prince: "I think that is quite right, but Great-Granny won't like...