Word: maria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them, Father Shirley C. Hughson, of the Order of the Holy...
...Manhattan. Having opened splendidly with La Gioconda (during which the spotlight played quite properly upon the boxholders instead of the stars), the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...There are now 63 names honored in the Hall of Fame, including not only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but James Kent, Asa Gray, Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, James B. Bads, William T. G. Morton, Alice Freeman Palmer...
Amid this excitement small notice was taken of Mafalda's brother, H. R. H. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont and Heir Apparent to the Throne of Italy. Yet Umberto was active, meanwhile. He was creeping up to the age of 21. When he reached it, last week, he became automatically a Senator -the youngest* in Italy...
...sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first...