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...relief of the groom, who had spent a hot & bothered week answering questions about his bride's and mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar...
Penny Wise (by Jean Ferguson Black; Juliana Morgan, producer) belongs to a trivial and pleasant species of growth which, like grape hyacinth, hepatica and the dogtooth violet, crops up in southern New York State spring after spring. This particular specimen of a vernal theatrical perennial is concerned with the clever wife
...father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs to raise their eyebrows long before the War, but it was not until a California Mothers' Club passed a resolution against her conduct in 1912 that she really became a national...
...exterminate. The cruelties and hardships to which they submitted were rewarded by canonization last June, the two requisite miracles for that purpose having been duly accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were suffering from tubercular peritonitis. The cures were effected by the invocation of the martyrs, thus investing their relics with added sanctity. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the Auriesville...
...this point in his book, but last week the Vatican supplied a clear description. The miracles were performed in virtue of the martyrs collectively less than four years ago. They took the form of cures. The first miracle was that Sister Marie-Maxima of a religious House of St. Hyacinth in Quebec recovered "perfectly and instantaneously" on Dec. 30, 1927, from a prolonged attack of tubercular peritonitis. Second miracle was that Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada) had on July 9, 1926, a cure, also perfecta et instantanea, of prolonged tubercular peritonitis...