Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are about 1,600 full and part-time Army chaplains, 126 attached to the regular force, 200 to the CCC, the remainder to the National Guard and Reserve Corps. For every 100,000 civilian members of a U. S. church, one chaplain .is supplied to the Army, an interfaith...
Bronson Alcott's given name was Amos Bronson Alcox. He changed it not for euphony but to scotch smirks. Born (1799) a Connecticut farmer's son, Alcott had a good old-fashioned pastoral upbringing but little school. His immortal longings were not bounded by the farm's...
Pope Pius' pastoral letter of last March, which took Germany sharply to task for persistent breaches of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat of 1933, had been answered by a rude peremptory note. Read the official resumé: "The Vatican applies to the new Germany, democratic and parliamentary standards which are...
The dates and themes of the single lectures are: March 17, the antique origin and the literary aspect of the idyl, the pastoral and the elegy, and mediaeval relics; March 24, the idyl and elegy in early European music before 1600, and Christmas pastorals; March 31, madrigals, opera, cantata and...
The picture itself is a simple pastoral of life in Ireland among thoroughbred horse breeders. Filmed entirely in technicolor, it presents a variety of picturesque scenes of the Irish countryside and comes to an exciting climax in the derby at Epsom Downs.