Word: nun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Catholics, and editor of a Catholic paper called The Queen's Work, whose circulation he ran from 12,000 up to 83,000. Father Lord is also the nation's No. 1 Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor, Fashionable Sin, Christ Lives On, which have sold 3,500,000 copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed...
...very little coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely, and when they quarreled she turned...
Inquisitive readers who searched From 'Prentice to Patron found 6-year-old Printer Thomas' broadside to be an antique, circuitous poem which told how a Lawyer had been produced by a series of cohabitations between such persons as a Knight, a Friar, a Nun, a Lady...
Helen Jepson coached with Garden, simulated the Garden costumes, scrupulously followed the Garden pattern as she changed from glittering courtesan to penitent nun. So far as externals went, Helen Jepson had learned her lesson well. She sang pleasantly and surely, acted more easily than did rich-voiced John Charles Thomas who has had twice her stage experience. But for many a Chicagoan the Jepson impersonation was too careful an imitation of the one her teacher gave. Jepson's good looks were beguiling but she seemed the shadow of Garden as she made her queenly entrance, shamelessly attempted to seduce...
...from being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...