Word: saint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week gabby old George Bernard Shaw tripped through the U. S. Southwest leaving columns of commonplace impertinences in his wake. Simultaneously a 13-year-old Shavian masterwork made thrilling news for Manhattan playgoers when Katharine Cornell revived Saint Joan...
...many a critic, Saint Joan is the lone instance in which the world's cleverest playwright discards the brakes of self-consciousness and permits himself one glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade...
Washburn was the leader of the National Geographical Society's Yukon Expedition which made the first crossing of the great Saint Elias Rauge, and succeeded in erasing from the map one of the last spots of unexplored territory on the continent of North America. Tickets may be obtained at the door...
Because German legal technicalities could be satisfied in no other way, a most unusual sentence was imposed last week in Schwerin, the home town of the new Nazi Martyr "Saint Gustloff." The prisoner, one Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
After he had declared Gustloff a patron saint and after Saint Gustloff had been cremated last week, the Laborite Daily Herald of London professed to have learned from Berlin that as soon as the Olympics are over a decree confiscating all property owned by Jews in Germany, and exiling all Jews from Germany, will be signed by Adolf Hitler to avenge Wilhelm Gustloff. This press officers at the Realmchancellory denied...