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...third preoccupation for this very important monk is to praise the Holy Name Society, laymen's organization, which Dominicans organized and with the co-operation of the bishops, manage...
...murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth, but he and his supposed father are continually running foul of each other. Eirick comes home from his wild-oats sowing, has a change of heart, wants to become a monk. Olav thinks that might be a good idea. But in a year Eirick is back again; he was not meant for monkhood. As Olav grows older and more dour, as his sister's marriage ripens into tragedy and the burdens of the family increase, Eirick shoulders them all, quits himself...
...Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival of the Masks gurgling merrily as a monk inducts his predecessor's soul into his flesh; the symbolism of the growing "storm" sweeping the Whites before it like tumbleweeds...
...clerk and a mendicant monk were taken from a train at Prague last week, charged with high treason against the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Old world diplomats studying the case grinned in their beards, figuratively doffed their cocked hats to dowdy, indomitable Zita of Bourbon-Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor...
...soldiers waited until the rescue party was within range. Then they raised their guns, fired. They saw the monks start, hide behind rocks. After a few minutes the monks reappeared, started to go their way. The soldiers fired again. No monk was hurt but after the second fusillade a St. Bernard dog lay gasping on the snow...