Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty minutes by subway and bus can easily consummate Miss Bergwall's desires. Park Street, Kenmore station, and the bus to Pilgrim road mark the way to the Simmons seraglio...
Search for Truth. R.D.S. has proved to the average man that religious plays need not be boring. It got the chance during the war, when Browne directed a band of professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs...
...During His Life." The U.S. had come to accept payment to veterans as inevitable-like death and taxes. As long ago as 1636 the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth decided: "If any man shalbee sent forth as a souldier and shall return maimed, hee shalbee majntained competently by the Collonie during his life." The U.S. had been maintaining its old soldiers ever since, although not always competently...
With the blackened stone houses lost in the darkness below, a single file of men tramped upward along a stony path. In sweet, mournful harmony they sang: "Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. ..." For generations Welsh miners had gone to the pits singing the same hymn...
...curious to know whether Hollywood has heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, or Thomas Jefferson. . . . We like amiable Catholic priests, mystic Bernadettes, charming nuns as well as the next man, but why this conspiracy of silence against America's Protestant tradition? . . . It is high time we have a series of pictures that portray our diverse religious traditions, including the bracing vigor of Protestant Christianity and the moral grandeur of historic Judaism...