Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Catholic diocese has a retreat house consisting of a dormitory and refectory for visiting retreatants. There from one to three days the lay communicant usually meditates, prays, confesses, is sermonized. The retreatant contributes what he likes (average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick...
Rosenberg: "The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's] theological hair-splitting." Göring (in a speech abusing the Church): "We [Nazis] have informed the Church that we stand on the basis of positive Christianity." Thus increasingly the Nazi Party imposes on Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party...
...anchor behind Napoleon's breakwater in Cherbourg Harbor last week lay the huge U. S. battleship Oklahoma. Suddenly telephones jangled in the captain's cabin. Washington was calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise were to be transferred to other warships. The ship and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga were to proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared...
...lay: Secretary of War George Henry Dern, of complications from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...