Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example for all Christians who wish to make their peace with God, put their lives in order. That example, however, has been systematically and generally followed only among Roman Catholics. In the 16th Century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them...
...onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm, now an aging fop. Later in the week they were invited to lunch by one of Germany's new rulers, Air Minister and Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who had just returned from Reichsführer Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat where he is only occasionally invited. The Air Minister introduced the airman to his wife, onetime Cinemactress Emmy Sonnemann, and to the latest of his series of lion cubs, each of which is returned to the zoo when it grows too big and surly. To the Lindberghs he showed...
...depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, was augmented with artillery sounds at its first performance there in 1882. The fact that this old warhorse received its first NewYork rendition with similar effects last week was due to the Works Progress Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden. The WPA's Federal Music Project, which has some 16,000 musicians on its rolls, wished to weld 210 members of three New York City WPA orchestras and a WPA symphonic band of 75 into a single unit for one big concert. Colonel Kilpatrick, who last spring...
...service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France, ends before the guns of a firing squad in Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined him instead with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death...
...Ashley's love for Melanie grew stronger, and both became quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed a Yankee, worked like a slave keeping the family alive. After the War, Ashley came back, had to refuse...