Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreeable, even their presence in Austria and Hungary as private residents would endanger the peace of Europe. Jugoslavia and Italy are particularly threatened by possible restoration, since the Habsburg crown would exert a great temptation on the Roman Catholic Croats in Jugoslavia and the Catholic Tyrolese in Italy to join the recreated Empire. ... If Archduke Otto returns. Czechoslovakia will sever diplomatic relations with Austria." Thus, possibly because Austria's other crises were for the moment quiescent, louder than at any time in the past two years rose that favorite rumor of European cafes-restoration of 21-year-old Archduke...
...members throughout the world the Sisters of Charity are the largest Roman Catholic order of active nuns. A lay community not administered by the Church, the Sisters renew their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and service of the poor every year on March 25. Any pious woman may join or resign at will. Their habit is a rough grey-blue gown and a "cornette" or white-winged headdress such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only...
...when she went down to the seaside cave with her Portuguese lover, Ramon. To Labor Agitator Marvin, Fullerton was another opportunity. When the Baumann mill announced a 10% wage-cut to protect its dividends, trouble started. Marvin organized a strike. Ramon, who had been promoted, was too ambitious to join, but Micky did. That put a stop to their affair. Mrs. Thayer thought Ramon, with a little polishing, might do for her Marjorie, but as Marjorie. lately seduced by Harry Baumann, shrank from the idea. Mrs. Thayer took him herself. Harry, tired of familiar sensations, joined the strikers...
...comparative poverty in which he lives as incontrovertible evidence of the rigid way in which he holds to these high aims. There can, in view of all this, be no doubt that the Colonel has followed the only course he could and that in refusing to join the investigating committee he made a gesture that is as tactful and gracious as it is moral, a gesture befitting an officer and a gentleman...
...Brooklyn, where she was appearing at the Paramount Theatre, famed Fan Dancer Sally Rand revealed that she had been offered "a big sum" to indorse nudism. Said she: "The offer shocked me. I knew that if I endorsed it, a lot of fat old men would join the cult just to see me without fans. It made me sick that my lovely dance should be confused with such things. All the nudists I ever saw had scratches all over their rear ends where they had been sitting on thorns...