Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite the fact that he is outlawed by the regular Texas Baptist organization, he is, among his own huge congregation, both Saint and Dictator...
...help of Charles McKim, he built the Metropolitan and Century Clubs, the Tiffany and Gorham buildings, the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Library of Columbia University, and finally, the old Madison Square Garden (torn down last year). This bulking sultry building, with its hippodromes and galleries, tapering to Saint-Gaudens' winged Diana on its central citadel, had a roof garden with a cabaret show and a smart orchestra. Up in the tower, Stanford White had apartments, reached by the same elevator that communicated with the cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White...
...banks of the river between Warsaw and Rostkow, Poland. On a vessel proceeding slowly up the stream to the Catholic convention at Warsaw were two golden shrines encased in oaken caskets about which 200 priests busied themselves in continuous devotion. One shrine contained many bones of Stanislas Kostka, patron saint of Poland's youth. The other shrine housed his remaining bones which were presented to the Catholic Church at Zakroczyn, where the saint's uncle was a onetime governor...
...bleached relics were paraded through the drizzly streets of Warsaw, 200,000 church dignitaries, Catholic societies, humble worshipers led by Cardinal Alexander Kakowski walked through the streets gleaming in the garish flicker of flambeaux and lanterns. Finally the precious saintly casket was taken to the vieux carré of the city and placed in the Jesuit Church, from which the next day it was removed after the convention opening, and whisked back by automobile, to Rostkow, the saint's birthplace...
...Indian religious appelation roughly equivalent to Saint...