Word: sheen
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...priest who had brought Budenz home was Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Lean, dark and handsome Father Sheen is associate professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University. He is also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
...nation's hundreds of college basketball teams can challenge Army and Navy's top ranking. One of the few, Manhattan's St. John's (won 14, lost 1), might even upset the applecart at West Point this week. Three other top teams put an extra sheen of gilt on their records last week: ¶ DePaul's 6-ft.-9 Center George Mikan took the scoring honors over Oklahoma A. & M.'s 7-ft. Bob Kurland (TIME, Dec. 25), as DePaul hung up its 15th victory (48-to-46) against one defeat. ¶ Well-balanced...
...this process an imitation beaver coat retailing at about $150-less than one-fourth the cost of genuine beaver-can be made from shorn sheep pelts. Unshorn skins can be converted into longhaired "furs" such as fox, complete with silvery sheen. The manufacturers even talk of imitating mink. The synthetic furs are more durable than the genuine article...
What makes Helen Goes to Troy as a show is the thing that has kept it alive for nearly a century: the inimitable lilt of Offenbach's music, a vulgar Parisian sheen that sparkles like the rhinestones in a cocotte's garter...
Orthodox Russian and U.S. Communists, good atheists all, were shocked last week to hear Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen coolly announce that he prayed every morning for Russia's Joseph Stalin. Monsignor Sheen is professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University of America and an archfoe of Bolshevism. Speaking to some 2,500 members of Brooklyn's Catholic Teachers Association, the Monsignor said: "We can hate Communism without hating Communists." He added: "Every morning after Low Mass I pray for Joe Stalin and for Russia, as does every Catholic priest in the world...