Word: omnium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Servant of All. For his motto, the new bishop chose Omnium servus (Servant of All). He worked as hard as ever, but carried his duties with a light bonhomie. In the evening he was frequently seen at the theater or concerts, and occasionally he indulged in a bit of mountain climbing. About the only excess that some Müncheners objected to in Defregger was the fondness he bore for his former military connections. He celebrated Mass for the annual reunions of his old army outfit, the 114th Jäger (Sharpshooter) division, and regaled them with rousing, nostalgic sermons...
...result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map. A map is not supplied. Carson simply fires his tidbits of intelligence helter-skelter, letting them fall where they may, and making no pretense whatever of stitching paragraphs or even sentences together so that they scan...
Gibraltar's main - and almost only -street is a delightful omnium-gatherum of the civilizations that have passed its way since Hercules rent Europe from Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors...
Last week Mrs. Roosevelt deftly slipped the quartet into the program* of the Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
Miss Perkins' rendering of the opening sentence of the Nicene Creed: Credo in unum Deum, Patrem I believe in one God. the Father omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, all mighty, maker of heaven and earth, -visibilium omnium et invisibilium. of visible things all and of invisible...