Word: malvern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geneva (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Maurice Colbourne & Barry Jones). At 83, Shaw is still almost the smartest guy in show business. Last year his Geneva-spoofing the League of Nations and potching the dictators-was produced at the Malvern Festival and in London. This year, the minute war broke out Shaw decided to bring Geneva up to date. He further announced that as long as the headlines continue to be dramatic, he will continue to crib from them...
...Joseph's-in-the-Hills at Malvern, Pa. is the largest U. S. retreat, the only one in the world owned and operated by laymen...
...Malvern" (Laymen's Weekend Retreat League) purchased a 106-acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework...
Last week's Malvern retreatants were policemen, firemen and others unable to get off weekends. They, too, spent most of their time in silence, save during religious observances, meals, conversations with those in charge of the retreat. Their day began with a rising bell at 7 a. m. A prefect awakened each with "Let us bless the Lord," to which the correct reply was: "And give thanks to God." Followed Angelus, meditation, Mass, prayers and breakfast. At this and other meals, excellently cooked and served by nine buxom German nuns, a meditation reader read briefly. When he exclaimed "Prosit...
After the hour or so of free time which follows every Malvern meal, the day continued with more meditation, individual conferences, the Stations of the Cross, spiritual reading, prayers, beads, confession, finally Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Spiritual climax of the retreat came the second night, when each retreatant was permitted 15 minutes of private Adoration of the Sacrament. To a Catholic, the ineffable privilege of kneeling alone near the Consecrated Host- usually impossible in a crowded city church-is equivalent to kneeling alone close to God. Men of Malvern, prizing the still hours of early morning, last week drew...