Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad used to send smiling black waiters to greet all incoming trains with great trays of free Sazerac cocktails...
President and Mrs. Conant are being entertained as house guests at the White House, and they were present at a dinner marking the resumption of official entertainment after the end of the Lenten season. Other House guests were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Davis...
...pontifical Latin, prepared for him, as always, by his Congregation for Latin Letters, Pope Pius XI last week solemnly flayed Nudism. Speaking before Lenten preachers on the eve of Ash Wednesday, he declared...
...religious modernist and far from gloomy. His latest book is a reply to Britain's unorthodox pundit: The Adventures of Gabriel in His Search of Mr. Shaw. This year he scandalized his diocese and caused a "petition of regret" to be circulated when he sponsored a series of Lenten lectures in the Cathedral by Nonconformists...
...Liverpool Cathedral. Later, deploring "anything mean or tawdry in music," he vigorously led his congregation in hymn-singing. Last week U. S. radio-owners learned that they would be able to hear Bishop David talk from England March 17, during a series of international and national Lenten broadcasts* sponsored by the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society. This week London's stalwart Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram leads off. Others: New York's Bishop Manning, Montreal's Bishop Farthing, Washington's Bishop Freeman, Niagara, Canada's Bishop Owen, Chicago's Bishop Stewart...