Word: sods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With much patriotic ado was begun last March the celebration of the 1,500th anniversary of St. Patrick's arrival in Ireland, although some authorities (including the Catholic Encyclopedia) give 433 as the date. In Saul the old sod was turned and blessed for a mighty statue and altar to St. Patrick. Then began preparations for more extensive doings. Planned long ago for June 1932 was the 31st International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church. Like monster church picnics, these gatherings are designed to promote religious solidarity, give the faithful an outing on a large scale. Eucharistic Congresses...
...Ireland her own?Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold from God alone who gave it?to have and to hold to them and to their heirs forever, without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...Ireland alone and Ireland her own and all therein from the sod to the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold, from God alone who gave it, to have and to hold for them and their heirs forever, without suit or service,, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Vermont novelist and trustee of the college, made an address. Other speeches were made by President William Allan Neilson of Smith College, Director William E. Rappard of the Geneva School for Higher International Studies, Governor Stanley Caleb Wilson. Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth of Bennington turned the sod, first step in the building of four semi-permanent wooden structures to be clustered about the nuclear structure, a large, remodeled barn...
...America was running for mayor of his town. Mr. Murphy had done a good deal of campaigning himself, had once shaken the hand of the great Parnell, so he sent a letter to his son "marked Impahrtent on one side and Errgent on the other" and left the old sod to electioneer for his offspring. His son's wife was not happy to welcome the old man. She had social aspirations, had changed the family name to Murfree when they moved out of the Patch...