Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father O'Hara has never cared much about watching his university's famed football team in action. But before every game, each of which is dedicated to a saint, Notre Dame footballers go to him at the Shrine of St. Olaf for prayer and blessing. When President Emeritus Henry Smith Pritchett of Carnegie Foundation pointed an accusing finger at what he called Notre Dame commercialism last year, Father O'Hara snapped back: "He starts with the false assumption that highly publicized football is inimical to scholastic attainment." Then he went on to point out how football profits...
...LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...
...that do not exist. This lady of apparent refinement and culture was faced with the necessity of making a choice. Were the injuries real? If they were, she belongs in this court. If on the other hand they were not real, according to the teachings of this departed patron saint of Christian Science, then, of course, she has no place here...
Home cooking is not entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace...
...MISFORTUNES OF MR. TEAL-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). "The Saint" hits his old-time stride again, in three long-short stories...