Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, done by Benozzo Gontzalli, is really a study of Saint Augustine with a toothache, as the writing in the margin below it explains, but the author changed his mind during some stage of the sketching, and rendered the great Saint reading from the Bible...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
According to the notice on the bulletin board the committee will have among the guests of honor, Patrick (Saint), ocC of Maudlin College, Dublin. Patrick played left shillalah for the Maudlin Maroons. Arrangements have been made to have special dinners served in the Dining Hall betwen 5.30 and 8 o'clock for House members and their guests. Tickets are on sale at $3 per couple, $2 for stags. Dancing will last from 10.15 until 3 o'clock. The House Committee consists of: Harper Woodward 2L, chairman, J. G. Brooks, '34, R. B. Cutler '35, J. L. Hoguet...
...Review, he settled down to write. His anonymous novel Democracy (the Washington Merry-Go-Round of 1880) was the sensation of a London season. His History of the United States is still eulogized by fellow-historians. But his two most widely-famed books, The Education of Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, were written for himself and a few privileged friends, originally issued in private editions...
Washington sightseers still flock to the grave in Rock Creek Cemetery where Henry Adams and his wife lie buried, to ask each other tripperish questions about the brooding bronze figure, famed work of Adams' friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In accordance with Henry's educated will, "no inscription, date, letters or other attempt at memorial" give curious onlookers any clear hint of what his education amounted...