Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George has visited the French Riviera for his health al most every winter; but this year, for the first time since his eclipse as Premier, he was officially welcomed and fêted near Saint Raphael by the local Prefect and representatives of the French Government. "I was astonished," said Mr. Lloyd George afterwards. "I tell you they'll be naming a street after me next...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...
...Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major, Saint-Saens's Le Deluge, Debussy's G Minor, Veracini's Concerto Grosso Bel. No medieval potentate had ever summoned forth such jeweled volumes of song in palace or cathedral. Next day the temple of music was again a trading mart...
...United States already has absorbed Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Samana Bay in Santo Domingo Mole, Saint Nicholas in Haiti, Fonseca Bay and Corn Islands in Nicaragua and now, through an alliance with Panama, may acquire the Island of Manzanilla...
...other acknowledged black saint is Moyses the Ethiopian (4th Century). St. Augustine (354-430) with Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory the Great, a Father of the Church, is presumed by many believers to have been a Negro. He was born at Tagaste in Numidia (Northern Africa...