Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philippine Rose Duchesne was born in Grenoble, France, in 1769. Defying her parents, she entered a Visitation convent at 18, left it during the Revolution, later tried to run a little sisterhood of her own. Finally she joined Mme Barat's new order. In 1818 Mother Barat sent her to the U. S. with four companions. Of the trip she said: "There is not much fun in it unless you do it for God." Arrived in New Orleans, she soon made a 40-day trip to St. Louis where the local Bishop welcomed her to his "palace," a barn...
...knew his mettle and had heard him off the record had long marveled at the patience with which "Joe" Robinson had borne for two years the antics of the senior Senator from Louisiana. That patience now came abruptly to an end. Sticking out his pugnacious chin, Senator Robinson rose and bellowed his rage...
MILTON - Hilaire Belloc - Lippincott ($4). MILTON - Rose Macaulay - Harper...
...Rose Macaulay's brief (153 pp.) study of Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...
...shadow hung over the Rose Room that afternoon, a shadow which stretched across the continent from a ranch at San Simeon, Calif. It was the shadow of the left-wing professors' No. 1 bogey whose mighty press from coast to coast has been hounding liberal teachers as Reds and renegades to U. S. ideals. The meeting began with Columnist Heywood Broun boxing the shadow as valiantly as he could without naming names. Historian Charles Austin Beard, who once taught at Columbia, followed him. Hawk-nosed, white-haired, clean-shaven Dr. Beard read his speech, made the point that education...