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With a man she had nursed through a long illness at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, eloped pretty Nun Manuela Mary Adamic, 25, sister of Author Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dynamite). Observed Author Adamic in Manhattan : "A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength...
...houses throughout the world. They differ from most other sisterhoods pictorially (flowing white robes instead of the usual black) and in organization. As postulants maidens of 21 or over may enter the order of their free will, become novices after six months' probation, take the veil of a nun after two years, take their final perpetual vows in five and one-half years. Also in the convent are "penitents," delinquent girls who may be committed by their families or by a court, and worldlings impelled to immure themselves by a sudden agony of remorse or access of faith. From...
...husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions except a bowl and a prayer chain, "and in the Ori ent enter some retreat or live alone, the homeless life, seeking Nirvana...
...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...