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...Parish church of Argenteuil some ten miles out from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th...
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked...
...circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist in charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard...
When United Feature Syndicate bought North and South American serial rights to Charles Dickens' The Life of Our Lord (TIME, March 12), many a newsman thought it had purchased a dead horse. But the pious story which Dickens wrote for his children proved to be an eminent success. It increased the circulation of newspapers using it by an aggregate 1,000,000. an average of 10% per paper. Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature hailed it as "the greatest circulation builder of all time," better even than the War photographs lately in vogue (TIME...
...Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists of dozen very short stories which interrupt the main narrative to state in parables the recurring motifs of the novel; "From the Diary of Sarah Tarleton" consists of excerpts from the self-book of a pious old lady who looked on life with unruffled satisfaction in her God and herself, heightening the reader's understanding of the characters and events of the novel by her own misunderstanding of them. Both devices are very successful, and the author may well be satisfied with the results...