Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exchange for a divorce, and to put the other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward him," McDonald reported. "She feels as a daughter would toward a father, but says she has never been in love in her life until she met Rossellini. . . Miss Bergman has done everything to avoid bitterness but she was deeply hurt when Dr. Lindstrom tried to send a psychiatrist to examine her. Naturally she refused to see a psychiatrist because it wasn't Rossellini's influence that caused her to fall in love...
...were a very young married woman starting life . . ." said Mrs. Winston Churchill to the graduating class of the National Institute of Houseworkers, "I think I should try to pass the examination myself. I should feel embarrassed working together [with you] if I was doing everything badly, or if I did not know how to iron a child's frock...
...year-old Lautrec died, his delicate health overtaxed by Montmartre's fast-paced night life. Demanding the best in printing, colors and paper, he had gained little from his excursions into "commercial" art beyond the satisfaction of a job magnificently done. But by last week his posters, which had at one time decorated kiosks, boulevard hoardings and alley walls all over Paris, were collectors' items bringing prices up to $400 a copy...
...European of 1500, the sickness of the church might have been hard to perceive. Father Lortz points out that the church then seemed to be at the pinnacle of its strength. But, he writes, while "the facades were still standing," there was no longer "always life in the structures . . . Religious impotence was most unmistakable in the case of the higher clergy . . . Nor may we forget what a devastating effect such weaknesses . . . necessarily exert on the life of the whole community...
Father Lortz feels that Protestants and Catholics must also share responsibility for a formidable task before them. "We must recognize that our Lord knows of only one church. He wills that there be but one sheepfold and one shepherd. In one of the most solemn moments of His life He prays with moving intensity that we may all be one . . . It is high time that we, who through four centuries have so lightly taken the presence of this division for granted, pay sincere heed to the warning which these His words contain for us. And there is a further task...