Word: snite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collective Eyes Sirs: TIME, Aug. 21, states, "The press forgot that Snite and his bride were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person" (italics mine, J. C.). Amusing is the thought that TIME'S editors, who have done such a creditable job in reporting news of the Catholic Church, allowed this absurd statement to slip by their collective eyes. Evidently the press knew, and TIME did not, that no Catholic is ever questioned before or after marriage as to his potency or impotency. JOHN M. CONROY...
Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled...
...morning last week a man from the County Clerk's office went to the Snite house in River Forest, a suburb west of Chicago, and issued a marriage license for Fred and Teresa. A few minutes later with Fred beaming from his 900-lb. iron tank, a priest married them. When newshawks arrived Snite Sr. met them at the gate, told them it was all over, took them in to see the newlyweds, who were about to start on a one-day wedding trip to Wisconsin in Fred's trailer...
...after the marriage, newspapers ran a statement by Fred's doctor to the effect that "there is no reason why he [Snite] should not have a normal marriage and become the father of children." The press forgot that Snite and his bride were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person...
Each year, in the Lourdes bathhouse, a handful of pilgrims are cured of ailments attested incurable by doctors. Fred Snite was neither cured nor disheartened. Said he: "I ask no miracle and do not expect one. I came here to offer my thanks . . . to receive the spiritual strength here to keep on getting better...