Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
...Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls can entertain Sunday afternoons and evenings and two or three nights a week. They eat the same food as the nuns-with chicken and ice cream on Sunday...
...Canada, opinion is divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill...
...nudging sixty, Felix was born of humble shepherd stock in Megalopolis, Greece. At eight he ran away to Athens to sell papers; by nineteen he had saved sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking...
Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...