Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whales are mammals. They do not have gills but lungs, must breathe air in order to maintain life. Therefore a whale out of water is not, like a fish, deprived of a necessary element. When a school of dead whales was recently found on the Australian coast. Dr. William Alexander Osborne, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, put this question to his learned colleagues: "Why do stranded whales die?" From his learned colleagues, according to his report in Nature last week, he received the following answers...
...first place. In 1936, for the first time, the Herald polled not only the U. S. but the box offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald's 1937 international survey found Shirley still top favorite. Other leaders, in order: Clark Gable, William Powell and Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Gracie Fields, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers and George Formby (English comedian), Jane Withers, Jeanette MacDonald, Sonja Henie, Myrna Loy and Laurel & Hardy...
...office success are not always the same thing, even to Hollywood. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...
Just as the Society of Jesus, famed for its urbane, astute fathers, is one of the most useful male orders of the Roman Catholic Church, so the Society of the Sacred Heart, with its dozens of well-run schools and colleges which attract Protestants as well as Catholics, is outstanding among orders on the distaff side. The French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built...
...last half of the history is devoted to the order's expansion in the U. S.-32 houses from Montreal to New Orleans, from Boston to San Francisco. Completed in 1929 was Villa Duchesne, the pride of the order, appropriately built at Clayton, St. Louis suburb, in the heart of the Great Valley...