Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge hungry wind came up behind Franz Romer. He has not reached Florida...
...late years, inspiration has given way to rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...
Sister Annunziata, a d'Orobelli without beauty or dot, had long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...
Father Baldessare, fat, devout and stupid priest, was another to witness the miracle, and urged the Church to saint Annie Spragg. His credulity was rebuked by a more sophisticated churchman, who explained brutally that at the moment the Church had less need for miracles than for money...
...Stigmata are marks on the human body corresponding to Christ's wounds at the Crucifixion. Francis of Assisi was the first saint upon whom these miraculous marks appeared...