Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International. Those flags afterward became the occasion for riots. We ultimately lost the flags, but the preaching continued as ever in support of Him who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong." Once the centre of violent Anglican...
Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
...message to his followers, telling them the eagle is returning, cured of royalty, to try once more his dream for the United States of Europe. When the dream has been dissolved at Waterloo, Marie gets her last glimpse of her lover from a window as he starts toward St. Helena...
...film's making, Director Herbert Wilcox stressed authenticity above all things. He borrowed Buckingham and St. James's Palaces, Windsor Castle. He persuaded Liverpool Museum to let him use the original, wheezing train which carried the real Victoria & Albert on their real honeymoon. The Royal Mews let him have the genuine Jubilee coach. He hired Dance Historian Lucile Marsh to puff in advance notices that the film's 19th Century dances were not only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from...
...round, Armstrong suddenly let loose a long, looping right to the jaw, and Sarron, for the first time in his twelve-year career, crumpled to the canvas to stay. Most notable fact about Champion Armstrong, who was able to finish high school by setting up pins in a St. Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart is a Broadway legend, bought his contract last year for $6,000 from a gun-toting promoter...