Word: shrine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happens, some other Christians are concerned about the money that U.S. churches are putting into imposing temples of worship. Last month a group of seminarians from the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland demonstrated in front of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, protesting the $25 million that has been earmarked to com plete the huge basilica. Some Episcopalians have publicly questioned whether their church ought to spend any more money on the impressive Washington Cathedral, which has cost $30 million since it was started 60 years ago, and will need at least $20 million more...
43rd ANNUAL SHRINE EAST-WEST FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). Oldest of the college all-star football contests, from San Francisco...
...Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that it canceled the accreditation of the Yomiuri correspondent in Peking...
Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...married George Bernard Shaw but briefly married another seedy socialist comrade of Morris, grew a mustache and took up with an androgynous lady who wore tweed knickerbockers. In later life she took to impersonating the catatonic lady of Shalott and became both custodian of and exhibit at the Morris shrine at Kelmscott Manor...