Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...
...such a thing as the Society of St. Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show them how to vote...
...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
...conducted by Arthur Fiedler March, "On the Mall" Goldman Overture to "Oberon" Weber Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Songs with Orchestra a. Pax et lux F. E. Dow '09 b. Victory Song W. N. Rose '12 c. Tuftonia's Days F. W. Hayes '16 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...George was the Patron Saint of England, St. Andrew of Scotland and everyone knows about St. Patrick. When a flag for the United Kingdom was desired the three crosses peculiar to the three saints were ingeniously superimposed, forming the famed British "Union Jack." Last week this same tried and tested formula of superimposition was carried to its ultimate conclusion with the unfurling of a new flag for that British Dominion called the Union of South Africa...