Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very largely smoothed out the "non-co-operative movement," the boycott of British goods and British institutions fomented by "Mahatma" Gandhi, lawyer, "saint" and sage...
...parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry and fishermen, warming their hearts by his love of the things they loved...
...auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens' "Le Cygne"; played it cleanly, limpidly; let no unwanted sentiment blur its colors...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was the most celebrated follower of St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...play with this colonel must face the inquisition, mother can point to the Marine post. And in some rustic hamlet some fonders and say to her son--"My boy, join the Marines and keep your morale clean." And in the vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion of Smedley Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints...