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...well as divisional examinations. Next year some improvement could be effected, even though it is too late in the current season to benefit the Class of 1938. And the quarter hour can also be used by those who can find nothing better to do as an interim of pious prayer...
...asked outright for it, argued that its continued loss made the Poles hostile to Russia. Soviet authorities took him to the medical museum, showed him a body which he identified by reading his breviary's account of the martyrdom of Andre Bobola. Because the Russians feared pious demonstrations in Poland, Father Walsh was invited to take the body to Rome by any other route. He took it by way of Odessa, Constantinople and Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bolsheviks might seek to switch bodies and thus hoax the Roman Catholic Church, Father Walsh took pains to pack the body against...
...Mennonites are a quiet, pious Protestant sect, holding the tenets of Menno Simons, 16th-Century Netherlander. Most of the sect's 40,000 "plain" Mennonites live in the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) counties of Pennsylvania. Each plain Mennonite Meeting House has two ministers, two deacons, the latter serving for life. Last week, in the meeting house of Blooming Glen, Pa., nearly 500 Mennonites enjoyed the rare experience of seeing a deacon chosen to replace one who had died...
Last week hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...
...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...