Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early ambition was to go someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...
...SAINT JOAN-Bernard Shaw and the Theatre Guild mordantly prove that Humanity loves its leaders only when they become legends...
...evidence is their custom of celebrating St. Charles' Day by veneration of some hair alleged to have been part of the whiskers of the saint...
Down in Tennessee, over the valley from the Suwanee river lies St. Andrews monastery church. Thither went Bishop Maxon on Jan. 30 last to preside at the blessing and veneration of the saint's whiskers...
...SAINT JOAN?G. B. Shaw does his earnest best to whack a meaning out of history...