Word: relic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic. South Carolinians affectionately acknowledge that "Cotton Ed"*opposes progress in almost every conceivable form. But by last week many veteran Smithies had become anxious over the opposition of Sixth-Term Senator Smith to a Third Term for President Roosevelt...
...Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint was placed inside the wound's dressing...