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Peter begins to drill 1,000 picked men for his bodyguard. A monk, Golovin, comes to assassinate him. Peter snatches away his dagger...
...Paraclete in his time plays many parts. Like the famous Italian lightning change actor. Fregolu whose name he takes, he can shift at will from Gypsy Fortune-Teller to American Theatrical-Manager, from the brazen trigamist to the tender agent of phonograph records, from Capuchin Monk to Harlequin himself in the latest of his thousand and one Harlequinades. Such sudden shifts will offer a splendid opportunity for the versatile acting of Eduardo Sanchez '26, the President of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Benedictine monk, Dom Perignon, procurator of the Abbey of Haut Villers, who discovered the great secret of regulating the effervescence of champagne, late in the 17th century. Not only did he thus produce a perfect sparkling wine that gushed from the bottle and overflowed the glass, but he invented a system of cork's in place of the bit of oil-soaked rag that had hitherto been used; and, to humor his fancy, he adopted a tall thin tapering glass for the service of his wine in order that he might watch the play of the bubbles...
Many years ago (in 680), a man child was born in an old Saxon family in Devonshire, and the child was christened Wynfrith. He studied at Exeter and early be-:ame a monk famed for his schollarship, his preaching. And he rook the name of Boniface...
...bonds of matrimony having been loosed, he, ordained a fortnight ago by Cardinal Mercier, has become monk in the congregation of the Picpus Fathers She, henceforth, is Sister Claire Marie...