Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad. . . . We do not choose murderous methods! I must proudly state that our movement has never murdered and has never attacked anyone...
...exhibition in Mexico it would be news. Last week Mexican Satirist Luis Hidalgo held an exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...
...arose during the week-end, due, perhaps to the natural disappearance of reticence, perhaps to the fact that certain Dunster Funsters finished Mid-years on Wednesday, involved the appearance of an unknown and hitherto unnoted flag on the Atlantic coast, floating gracefully from the mast of Eastern's dignified Saint John...
Last week, with all his rigid standards, he had good reason to be pleased. Weber's Freischütz overture seemed to have been freshly recreated. An oldtime Cherubini symphony had such subtle grace and elegance that it was accepted as important. Most surprising was the Saint-Saens Danse Macabre which sounded extraordinarily vital, not a measure of it hackneyed or cheaply melodramatic. After the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Götterdammerung, the audience would have stayed long to cheer. But Toscanini was through. He bowed briefly, tugged at the concert master's sleeve...
...Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal because "books are a distraction to me. ... I have so many things to tell Him." At 12 she was impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering...