Word: nun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cases were so radically distributed in social strata (a nun, a baker, a one-day-old child, a medical student), in type of employment and geographical location that both contagion and food-poisoning seemed ruled...
...pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably...
...with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world. On the way he meets an old man coming back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily, but he goes on. A brother watches his sister being made into a nun, falls in love with the novice kneeling by her side. When he hears the priest take away their given names and christen them anew, it is as if the world ended...
Alien to most busy folk in the U. S. is the Buddhist hope to reach Nirvana by self-sacrifice, contemplation, suppression of passion. Nevertheless, now & then some inquisitive or discontented Westerner adopts Buddhism. Last year a Mrs. Margaret E. Ledson, 33, California divorcee, became the first U. S. Buddhist nun. F. M. Ormsby and L. A. Coburn of Boise, Idaho, became Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts...
...Archbishop of Paris, and the Bishop of Bayeux, presided. Came also many a prelate returning from the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. There were open air masses, processions, lectures on the holy life of the Little Flower. Not the least interested in the dedication were three Carmelites and one Visitation Nun. They were the surviving sisters of St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus: Céline, 61; Léonie, 65; Marie, 78; Carmelites at Lisieux. Cloistered all, they did not attend the dedication, just as in 1925 they preferred not to accept the Pope...