Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...free-for-all. Its members sang the Horst Wessel song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien," his hearers again shouted "Oranienburg...
Married? Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress ("Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca...
When the tale opens, the whole family is on a train, bound for "The Grove," their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
Xaverian Brothers, Tell Your Students That Saint Francis Xavier, Dearest Friend of Saint Ignatius, and The Saint Whose Name Your Order Bears, Has Been Insulted By the Morning...