Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works of the candidate. Myriad chandeliers light the enormous basilica. The canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization...
...crucifixion. The rose kept its fragrance and Claudia lived among the Christians in Rome, was received into Heaven at her death. Written 32 years ago by the Rev. Francis L. Kenzel of the Redemptorists and performed annually in Boston since then, Pilate's Daughter has traveled far: a nun in China asked for a copy last fortnight...
...commercial work easier to take than the arty strivings of most of his competitors is the simplicity of his approach. He is not the least bothered by surrealism. Communism, psychoanalysis or the plight of NRA. When he wants to paint the harbor of Rockport or the portrait of a nun he does it as naturally as he would a flopsy-mopsy bunny...
Drifters from the sidewalks and the magazine rooms, a few tired shoppers from 42nd Street, earnest students with notebooks and clattering herds of bewildered schoolchildren filed into a long exhibition room of the New York Public Library last week. Sprinkled among this crowd was many a Catholic nun, cowled & coiffed. fluttering gently from case to case or resting quietly on the benches to say a silent prayer for J. Pierpont Morgan who in the goodness of his Protestant heart had unlocked his shelves to let them see some of the greatest treasures of their Church...
...Gambler, The Nun, And The Radio," which appeared in Scribner's Magazine last spring, is an asset to this collection. It commences in a mad vein but turns rapidly into a dud when the author gets the inspiration toward the end to take several of the characters seriously. This lapse, however, is excusable. Gaetano, the gambler, is an unusual character; Sister Cecilia is the practical nun who prays for Notre Dame in the big game. There is no plot, there are few situations; its virtues may only be ascribed to Mr. Hemingway's consummate technique of making something from nothing...