Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Flight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's system of casting all its available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down...
...permanently defeated organization," and in preferring a temporary compromise to the awful alternative of seeing O'Brien untoppled, and his dispensation retained, but there is in Mr. Thomas' position far more dignity, far more of that contemptuous idealism which ennobles Rousseau than of that mild practicality which makes Saint Simon, in the long perspective, seem more than a little ridiculous...
Besides being lengthy and laborious, adding a new saint to the Roman Catholic calendar is an expensive business. Many hearings are held, many investigations made into the life of the person proposed for canonization. Alleged miracles, upon which beatification and subsequent canonization depend, must be diligently checked by expert scientists and doctors. Then, if the cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother...
...return to Hyde Park the President began sitting for his official portrait. The artist: Ellen G. Emmet Rand of Salisbury, Conn, whose portraits of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the late Storekeeper Benjamin Altman hang in the Metropolitan Museum...
...unusual, but not improper, for a Catholic family to give a child any middle name but a saint's. Five generations ago there was a Rev. Samuel Knox, a Scots Presbyterian minister who became president of Baltimore City College. First-born male descendants took his name, even when Jesuit Wilson's Catholic grand mother took her children into her church. Born in Chicago 51 years ago last week, Samuel Knox Wilson studied in the Mid west, taught in Jesuit institutions including Loyola, took a doctorate in history at Cambridge. At college he improved his health playing football...