Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 51, second husband of the thrice-married Duchess of Windsor; and Avril Joy Mullens Leveson Gower, 39, British socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in London...
...formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach. They would all go back one day and witness that through a Catholic priest the Una Sancta Catholica et Apostolica had once in their lives become living, real truth...
...They led Ruth Brown Snyder from her steel cage tonight. Then the powerful guards thrust her irrevocably into the obscene, sprawling oak arms of the ugly electric chair . . . The body that once throbbed with the joy of her sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray...
...spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...
Czechs heard of Zapotocky's rise with no joy. Gottwald had been tough. Zapotocky looked tougher...