Word: nun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a pretty, 25-year-old Roman Catholic nun named Manuela Mary Adamic, serving in a hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned...
...implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared the ultimate in double-barreled cartoons: on the left under the caption Sworn to Satan a leering Jew seducing a German maiden; on the right a priest and nun tagged Belonging to the Church; these two captions trailing into the screamer AND BOTH LOST TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE PEOPLE: UNFRUITFUL...
With a man she had nursed through a long illness at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, eloped pretty Nun Manuela Mary Adamic, 25, sister of Author Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dynamite). Observed Author Adamic in Manhattan : "A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength...
...houses throughout the world. They differ from most other sisterhoods pictorially (flowing white robes instead of the usual black) and in organization. As postulants maidens of 21 or over may enter the order of their free will, become novices after six months' probation, take the veil of a nun after two years, take their final perpetual vows in five and one-half years. Also in the convent are "penitents," delinquent girls who may be committed by their families or by a court, and worldlings impelled to immure themselves by a sudden agony of remorse or access of faith. From...
...husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions except a bowl and a prayer chain, "and in the Ori ent enter some retreat or live alone, the homeless life, seeking Nirvana...