Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertainer." But next Feb. 2, Fordham University's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J., will exchange his budget juggling, administrative conferences, luncheon dates, and after-dinner speeches for a more peaceful program of prayer, study, sermonizing and spiritual direction of laymen. He will become Superior of the Jesuit Retreat House at Manresa, Staten Island...
Died. The Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., 89, leading Jesuit scholar, founder and onetime editor of the famed Roman Catholic Encyclopedia (1903-14) and the Catholic weekly America (1909); in The Bronx...
...right appended to the rest of Jan Fafrand, was pictured in an advertisement for the HTW's "Troilus & Cressida." The ad was submitted to several local college newspapers. Reaction from the Boston College "Heights" was immediate. Where most editors raised their eyebrows, Charles Cullen, Business Editor of the Jesuit College's Weekly, raised the bars. He refused to print the ad unless the photograph was amputated...
Cullen explained that it wasn't only that there was too much tibia and fibula exposed. "It is a definite Jesuit Policy" to prohibit the appearance of females in "bathing suits, dancing costumes, or evening gowns," in undergraduate publications...
...upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies on the Lamb...