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Therefore last week when the creaking old Fabre liner Asia burned to her water line in the Red Sea harbor of Jidda, out of some thousand pious Mecca pilgrims, 112 shrewd Mohammedans who knew a good thing when they saw it, refused absolutely to leave the ship, knelt on the burning deck, died in an agony of expectation. The few Occidental passengers, the crew and the remaining pilgrims were rescued by harbor craft, but the Asia, on which many a U. S. citizen has sailed from Manhattan to the Near East, burned for a total loss...
Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach. Constantly in touch with leading German historians and theologians, he often turns up curious bits of lore. In a recent hearthrug sermon, details of which leaked out last week, the onetime War Lord revealed matter extremely pertinent to the Crucifixion of Jesus which startled his household at Doorn and many another throughout Germany...
...year he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts in Baltimore, where he was also an instructor in cast drawing. Twice before he has won traveling scholarships. When they learned that he was executing a St. Francis, the nuns of Norfolk's Franciscan Convent were led in pious procession by their Mother Superior to Sculptor Simpson's studio. Though he is not a Catholic, many of Sculptor Simpson's Catholic friends promised to say masses for his success...
Could they observe the careers of their grandsons, most great men would be moved either to laughter or tears. Grandfather Millet was simple, pious, one generation removed from the soil. His first artistic efforts occurred after he had studied some Biblical engravings. He righteously abandoned the painting of nudes after he had learned to do them splendidly. It is not difficult to imagine how he would have regarded the story, pieced together from rumors, which was being circulated last week while his grandson awaited trial. The story...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...