Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, p. 11, under "Balls," I find the following statement: "Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week." The statement, picturesque as it is creates a wrong impression. Reasons...
...saint is President Roosevelt to Puerto Ricans, fun-loving or not. Although personally he is admired as a talented leader, the extension of the New Deal to the island has been delayed for so long that Puerto Ricans are lukewarm toward the Administration...
...long record of the short life of St. Francis of Assisi is full of his physical ailments. But not until lately did any doctor of medicine have the interest, ambition, leisure and opportunity to collate all the Saint's recorded symptoms and from them make a diagnosis of what troubled the holy man. Dr. Edward Frederick Hartung of Manhattan concludes that St. Francis suffered grievously from an eye infection contracted in Egypt and at the age of 45 died of malignant malaria contracted in swampy Italy. Dr. Hartung's data appeared last week in the Annals of Medical...
...ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final resort the doctors applied hot irons to the Saint's face...
...world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...