Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Fe, the privilege does not apply to Ash Wednesday, Lenten Fridays and the day before the feasts of Christmas, Pentecost, the Assumption and All Saints...
...Roman Catholic best known to most U.S. citizens is Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. His annual broadcasts of Lenten sermons have long been among the most popular on the air, one of his books, Peace of Soul, was a notable bestseller in 1949, and the many conversions over which he has presided have included such well-known people as Columnist Heywood Broun, Communist Louis Budenz, Industrialist Henry Ford II and Author Clare Boothe Luce...
...Built with money donated by the faithful for the privilege of eating butter during Lent. In the Middle Ages, the Lenten fast generally ruled out milk, butter and eggs as well as meat...
South Pacific, celebrating its first anniversary by taking an eight-day Lenten vacation, looked this week more than ever like the biggest hit in Broadway history. Except for a few seats in August, the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II-Joshua Logan musical was sold out through September, and the ticket demand was still big. The advance sale...
...Christian year moved into its Lenten 40 days & nights of repentance and self-examination, Protestant leaders meeting in two parts of the world turned their thoughts and prayers to man's newest scientific triumph-the hydrogen bomb...