Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Minister for Family Affairs, the official champion of a higher birth rate, a lower divorce rate, more authority for the German husband. A zealous Roman Catholic husband and father (five children), he deplores short skirts, long embraces, plunging necklines. "My ministry," explains Wurmeling, "is the patron saint and guardian of the family...
...mild and smoothly flowing work, entitled Elegy, written by Violinist-Composer Clarence Cameron White, 73-year-old Manhattan Negro. White's approximate recipe for tranquillity: a light batter of equal parts of Brahms and Saint-Saëns, seasoned with a pinch of Ravel. The audience gave Elegy rather tranquil applause, but roused to give Composer White himself a hearty burst when he appeared to take...
Phyllis I. Fitzpatrick '55 of Saint Paul, Minn, and Holmes Hall was elected vice-President and Eleanor K. Smith '56 of Philadelphia and Moors Hall was chosen secretary...
...highbrow writers, a handsome, American-born Italian princess nearing 72 is the closest thing to a patron saint in the world today. When they visit Rome (and that is the thing for them to do these days), they vie for invitations to her home, a gloomy Renaissance palazzo with an irresistibly highbrow address: 32 Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops). There they get fruit juice and cakes, plenty of rarefied talk about writers and writing, and lots of sympathy. The Princess Marguerite Caetani's interest in their work is as genuine as her 800-year...
...Holy Family with Saint, called a Titian, was probably painted by a contemporary...