Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...
...ancient Palazzo Malatesta at the foot of the Capitoline. Their country house in Tuscany is the Villa Reala de Marlia, world-famed for its hedge carvings. In Paris they entertain with suitable splendor at the 18th-Century Hotel de Ligne. In the U. S. the Countess' mission is that of a torch bearer for Italian...
After collection the clothes will be sent to the Cambridge Family Welfare Association for distribution, Haymond H. Dennett '36, P. B. H. graduate secretary, announced last night. A portion will be held out for the Grenfell Mission in Labrador...
Because Westchester's substantial, commuting Episcopalians do not relish worshiping at "mission stations," run by the New York diocese, the committee recommended that certain of the 14 Westchester missions be made into parishes, self-respecting and locally controlled. Likewise -though none had expressed any desire to -the committee suggested that failing Manhattan parishes be moved to fastest-growing Westchester...
...thief named Nicholas Skeres, who was mixed up in one of the Catholic conspiracies around Mary Queen of Scotland, and finally jailed for taking part in Essex uprising against Elizabeth. The third, Robert Poley, an important figure in the British secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail, had wormed his way into intimacy with the leaders of the Catholic party, intercepted their secret correspondence with Mary when they were plotting Elizabeth's overthrow...