Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve long Republican years Andrew William Mellon was almost a saint to his party. By last week, however, the Democratic Administration in Washington was rapidly making this 79-year-old Pittsburgher over into an Old Deal devil...
...whether vain or not, comes easily to Autobiographer Powys: "I know I am not being silly or conceited when I say that in certain directions I have as powerful an imagination as Swift." He thinks he is "too much of a demented satyr and too much of a fanatical saint." He admits, however, that his enemies call him "a tiresome poseur, full of silly affectations, and a long-winded, tedious rhapsodist." Powys realizes that his literary reputation is not comparable with his brothers', Theodore and Llewellyn, comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much propaganda...
...cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville sends most of its graduates to nearby Princeton. Some Lawrence-villians: onetime U. S. Attorney-General William D. Mitchell, onetime Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, Architect William A. Delano, Art Critic Homer Saint-Gaudens, Author Richard Halliburton, and the sons of Charles Gates Dawes, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst...
Henry Cheron was more than that. He is one of the few men in the world who was an intimate friend of a famed saint. In his native Normandy many years ago Papa Cheron used to play the guitar while the "Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, sang hymns. As Finance Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky...
...Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro's view, turned it upside down to exhibit in one vial an opaque, solid mass. The crowd prayed loudly, none more fervently than a group of poor women chosen as zie di San Gennaro (aunts of the saint...