Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS...
...felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
...Saint Joan of Arc was declared last week Saint of Wireless by French amateurs and French navy wireless operators...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army of the Unemployed. The sinners have salvation in their own hands, but for the plodding saint there is too often only the satisfaction of a fleeting glimpse at Parnassus...