Word: saint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest Congress personality is 69-year-old Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Politically astute as well as religiously ascetic. Saint Gandhi has long been a virtual Congress dictator, his word being law and his selection of party officials final...
...Saint Nicks present a smooth aggressive squad this year, made up entirely of former college greats. Captained by Fred Mosley, former Harvard hockey and football star, the team boasts an undefeated A. A. U. League record in two years of play. At present the St. Nicks oldest amateur ice team in the United States are running for the A. A. U. championship, which would assure them of the opportunity to represent America in the 1940 Olympic Games at Finland...
Wednesday night's game was the last for the Varsity until a week from Saturday when the Saint Nicholas Club comes to Boston for an Arena encounter. On the following Wednesday the Varsity will resume its League schedule with Dartmouth at the Boston Garden, breaking a League lay-off of almost exactly one month...
...Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy to his wife, the Duke...
...time he was 60, M. Vianney had transformed the life of his village, had converted 100,000 people outside it. At 67 he came as near to backsliding as a saint might: he was on the point of defying his bishop and entering a monastery...