Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that word 'saint' should be ruled out of present life," he said. "It is too sacred a word to be lightly applied to anybody, much less to one like myself, who claims only to be a humble searcher after truth...
Gandhi was arrested in 1922, after his failure to prevent his noncooperating followers from committing acts of violence against the British Raj. He declared that his views on politics and religion had undergone no change in prison. He objected to the tendency to make a saint...
...SAINT JOAN-Bernard Shaw brilliantly assures Joan of Arc of a place in history...
...Josef Pelle, 61, onetime French Ambassador to Constantinople, famed "father" of the French Catholics in Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...
...SAINT JOAN?Bernard Shaw actually says a good word for religion...