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...Miss Kenny is not a nun. In England and Australia, experienced graduate nurses are called Sister...
...Duluth Armory one night last week, a bright-eyed little Benedictine nun rose from her seat, bowed modestly to 3,000 cheering Minnesotans. Sister Martina was being cheered for the music she had written-a setting for chorus and orchestra of Alfred Noyes's poem, The Highwayman...
...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
...microscopes were the most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...
After a beautiful woman, Mexicans most love a martyr. Next best is a hero. For a dozen years comely, dark-eyed Conception Aceveda de la Llata, Madre Conchita (a Capuchin nun), has been all three. She became a sort of Mexican Tom Mooney...