Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl Friday. This purported to be a defense of the chorus girl. William A. Grew, who wrote and acted in it, believes and tried to demonstrate that the ladies of the ensemble spend their off hours in Long Island homes fending off businessmen who are anything but tired. On the road the piece was called Undressed Kid and it contained an unusual amount of bedroom material, especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called...
They appealed to His Excellency, Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, and then to the Holy See, where their suit was denied. Then they went to a secular Rhode Island court and then to the State Supreme Court...
...civil law respects canon law as it applies to the internal affairs of a church.* Therefore since the Catholic court had ruled against Attorney Daignault and friends, the Rhode Island courts did likewise. Attorney Daignault lost his case. Worse, he had been responsible for the appearance in a secular court of a Catholic Bishop as defendant...
...realize the gravity of your fault, and hasten to liberate yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness, that Mother Church would once more take...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...