Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that at all times surrounded her are dexterously manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with M. de Saint-Evremond is made real and splendid, as is that curious moment when the old lady stretched a wrinkled hand to touch, like a godmother who bestows an inheritance of her magic, the small sticky paw of Voltaire, then a monkeyish brat. Ironical, Romantic...
...Saint Nick...
George Bernard Shaw, irate because Dean William Ralph Inge described Shaw's Saint Joan an apology for the Inquisition, screamed rudely back...
...days of moping, pallid Louis IX, "Saint Louis" (1226-70), Frenchmen dealt in a gold coin called the ecu or "crown." Last week M. le Professeur Charles Gide of the College de France proposed that a new ecu be struck with, the value of one U. S. dollar and that the present depreciated franc (4?) be scrapped...
...point of a pin. But the layman in his attitude toward science today is often stupid where the ancients whom he reads were merely uninformed. His conception of the action of a radio, or psycho-analysis is no more intelligent than their belief in the efficacy of a saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders if the burners of witches were more concerned with the problems of demonology, than the troubled Governor of New York will be with those of psychology in considering during the next week the case of Ruth Snyder, sentenced to burn...