Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade of glorified soapbox orators, supple extemporizers and disarming demagogs, China has in Mr. Wang a statesman several cuts above the accepted thing in an up-to-date Premier. For one thing, he not only obeys according to his lights the famed will of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, but he is more than suspected of having written his political Testament, read it to Sun upon the Saint's sickbed and obtained the August Signature none too soon...
Prayers for those that go down to the sea in ships will be offered tomorrow on the Newell float, and all shells will carry an image of Saint Christopher, it was learned late last night. These heroic measures seem necessary to obviate further fatalities in the dangerous sport of rowing--the last two days have provided a severe warning...
Soloists will be Herbert V. Kibrick '38, singing "O Gladsome Light," by A. T. Davison; Nixon de Tarnowsky '35 singing "Brennan on the Moor," an English folk song; Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37, who will sing "Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas," a French carol; and John L. Bishop '37, singing "Spanish Ladies," an English folk song...
Recognizing the complications of St. Francis' malaria, however, fills Historian Hartung with greater pride. The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life. No doctor attempted to treat this disease. St. Francis' stomach, spleen and liver were infected, causing him great anguish. He developed those other signs of malignant malaria, dropsy and hemorrhages...
...Beatrice he idolized was the wife of one Simone dei Bardi. Dante rarely met or spoke with her and she died very young. But, says Papini, Dante was no saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini...