Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener spread the cement with a silver trowel, and the stone was lowered into place, while the choir sang Martin Luther's impressive hymn, "Nun danket alle Gott." President Lowell then introduced Justice Swayze, president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Massachusetts, speaking especially of the fittingness of the cornerstone of the Memorial, being laid in the presence of the first scholars of the University...
Died. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, 32, tall, handsome actress (the nun in Max Reinhardt's Miracle, 1924), niece of Pennsylvania's onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot; of carbon monoxide poisoning; in a garage at her Old Brookville, L. I. home...
...embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener's No. 1 spy, and when Kitchener routed the Mahdi and cleaned up the Sudan, Ulysses -was the most powerful trader in Africa...
...wonder," cited as a reason why the Catholic Church should make a saint of Mother Cabrini. last week helped advance her one step on the long road to canonization. In the Vatican, Pope Pius XI and his Congregation of Rites approved the "heroic virtues" of the energetic, well-born nun, directed that she be called "Venerable...
...shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into the world of affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill, who suffers as he watches his children being taken by relatives, suf fers more...