Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rains heavily in Tonga, in the warm South Pacific. Thus it did not seem unusual to Tonga's Queen Salote* that it should be raining in London on coronation day. Instead of withdrawing into the shelter of her coach like most notables in the long procession from Westminster Abbey, Queen Salote sat in the drenching downpour, a massive (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.), broad-faced woman in red robes and a headdress from which two feathers stuck stiffly upright; she beamed, waved, mopped rain from her face with a handkerchief, beamed again. The soaked, footsore crowd...
...understood that the corporation takes the view that temporary shelter or roofing is unfeasible, and that improvements on the rink must be permanent. So that the plans may be completed, the additional funds must be gained by July 1. The committee has earlier gifts of some $25,000 by Bright and over $1000 by John P. Chase '28, former hockey coach, as starters...
Praise the Lord for our Foundation . . . For the Royal Founder King, For the Ancient House providing Shelter 'neath her kindly wing...
...Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There he is taken with the peasant's tasty cheese as well as with his pretty wife. The ending, in which he chooses between the two, is typically French...
...Justice Moody of the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, the right to refuse to bear witness against oneself is "a privilege of great value, a protection to the innocent, though a shelter to the guilty, and a safeguard against heedless, unfounded or tyrannical persecutions." Historically, the struggles of the Puritans against ecclesiastical inquisitions, which resulted in the Fifth Amendment, established that religious and political heresy is not a crime, but it is rather the right, if not the duty, of the citizen in a democracy; and that freedom of speech becomes meaningless without the corollary right to keep silent...