Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles 6. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes...
...grew, it encountered opposition. Plump Maria Theresa of Austria, a doting and jealous wife, had her husband's Masonic lodge raided because she was sure that her philandering Francis was up to no good. More effective opposition came from the Catholic Church. Pope Clement XII, in 1738, issued a papal edict denouncing Masonry as a trespass on the church's spiritual and moral domain. Rome's opposition to Masonry has been unceasing. The church, which excommunicated all Communists last week, has been excommunicating Masons for 200 years...
...Trapps, the camp is far more than a musical outing; it is their own family experiment in living. Since the death of Baron von Trapp in 1947, the experiment has been presided over by handsome Maria Augusta Trapp, a woman with the charm and will of a medieval matriarch...
...novice in a Salzburg convent, Maria Augusta began to get "bad headaches," she says, and her superiors decided to give her a vacation helping care for the seven children of the widowed Baron Georg von Trapp. Maria Augusta married the baron, bore him three children...
With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...