Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling chunks of rock to become incandescent with friction. "Shooting stars," murmured lovers in the dark. "The tears of St. Lawrence," whispered the devout, for Aug. 10 is the anniversary of that saint's martyrdom.* In Manhattan and at Schenectady, certain earthlings, adept at communicating with one another by impulses sent out electrically on the ether that fills in spaces between Earth's atmospheric gas molecules, watched and listened carefully to see if the shower of meteors would cause any waves of disturbance...
...year 1327 the four French communes of Roquebillière, Belvédère, Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Lautosque became involved in a lawsuit over 16,000 acres of pasturage which their boundaries mutually adjoined. For 600 years the suit has prospered-while the Royal Houses of Valois, Orleans, Bourbon and Bonaparte rose, flourished and declined. Whole families of lawyers and litigants have been founded and have passed away. Recently the Court of Appeals at Aix rendered what it is hoped will be a final decision. By order of the Court the pasturage in question will be divided among...
Municipal Organist Charles Raymond Cronham, at the console, was in fine fettle; seemed inspired with Saint-Saëns "Danse Macabre," Massenet's "Phèdre Overture...
...Holiness, Pius XI, announcing to his "venerable brothers" the celebration of the hepta-centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their patron, it is only right that our children who labor in this field according...
...While doing this, they must reject that purely imaginary figure of the saint conjured up by the defenders of modern error...