Word: jude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
...placed in the cases in the Ross corridor are a Chinese bowl of rare delicacy and beauty, dating from the Lung period; four Persian tiles and two fragments of Persian pottery; four places of Chinese carved agate dating probably from the XVIII century; and a Chinese scepter probably of Jude, and dating also from the XVIII century...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
...Offense Meant. The appearance of Jude the Obscure in book form (1895) was the greatest shock of all. A critic for the New York World denounced it as coarse "beyond belief . . . almost the worst book I have ever read. ... When I had finished the story I opened the window and let in the fresh air." Poor Hardy, mild-mannered and at heart probably the least coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes...
...engagements in the First World War as a member of the 28th Division Field Hospital in France. He enjoys a solid reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which was written for Helen Morgan, "The Moon in Here," and a stirring war song scheduled to roll off the press in a few days, "Hands Off America." Following his return from the World...