Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope put on the vestments for Mass. Mass is said in strictest privacy. Giovanni serves and the only others present are the members of the small community of Swiss nuns of the Congregation of the Holy. Cross of Metzingen, who look after the Pope's clothes and kitchen. At about 10 minutes past 8, Mass is finished. There follow 20 minutes of thanksgiving before the altar...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
...trim cattle-and-wheat center of Woodward, Okla. (pop. 5,500), Clyde Grim, 57, a mechanic, and his wife had finished supper. At 8:42 p.m., the wind blew the kitchen door open. "It blew us outside on the ground," Grim said. "There were cars in the air, some blowing straight up. People were screaming. It was awful. There was a hissing and a popping sound, and through it all I could hear my wife praying...
...define the "life" of a mother? I only know that mischief and trouble dissolve when a muddy wild Indian of two-and-a-half comes in the kitchen door, wraps his arms around my legs, looks at me and says, in unconscious imitation of his daddy: "Hya, honey...
...moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with the help of hypnotic powers and a kitchen poker...