Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor, 1929-31). From Japan came demure Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, birth control advocate who lecture-toured the U. S. last winter. From Berlin came Dr. Marie Munk, first woman judge in Prussia. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, women...
...side -to the second son of famed Jason (Jay) Gould. Day later an announcement was inserted in the Manhattan Press: "With those 'forces for good' grief stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint of children. ... In memory of such a man all must doubly strive to give to children as he did-service sublimed by love." Apple-cheeked, fuzzy-bearded, benign, Edwin Gould unlike a dozen other descendants of his famed father made no copy for Hearst's sensational Sunday pages...
...briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters...
...possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick her for the leading light of the Amazonian younger set was as much...
...Ruthless," grumbled the official refugees as they stood on the Saint Lazare platform. Many had had six clays or less to sell or sublet their homes at a loss, dismiss their servants, recall children from school, wind up their bureaus' affairs, pack up, get out. The William L. Fingers of Paris fondled a month-old baby. Their plight was no less unpleasant than that of able Chief Commercial Attache Fayette W. Allport, who had recently given up a $25,000-a-year job to return to the service. Behind them they left two Commerce representatives to keep each other...