Search Details

Word: monasticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fighting for Fatherland | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

THE PURE IN HEART-Franz Werfel- Simon & Schuster ($3). Ferdinand was ship's doctor on a Mediterranean liner. He kept himself to him- self, and his assistant's curiosity, already well tickled, was further titillated when he saw Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul's Journey | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Neither Father Sill (TIME, March 23) nor any other members of the Protestant Episcopal monastic Order of the Holy Cross wear a "white cassock."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

James Eads How was a stubborn idealist. He believed in the "actual, practical brotherhood of man." His family was rich. His grandfather was James Buchanan Eads, builder of the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, builder of the Mississippi jetties just below New Orleans. His father was James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End of an Idealist | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

"Nevertheless, it has some advantage over a monastic kind of education which withdraws from ordinary contact of life a group of boys of similar environment and denies to them real instruction and guidance in such matters as understanding the organization of industry, contact with practical situations in politics, how to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewer Calls Babson Statement That Newsboys Will Lead College Men "Ridiculous"--Lists Needs of Modern Citizen | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | Next