Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal because "books are a distraction to me. ... I have so many things to tell Him." At 12 she was impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering death from tuberculosis was a summing up of all she knew and much that she felt only intuitively of Catholic belief. Marie Thèrèse Wang's biographer, Rev. Basil...
...affection for me, none whatsoever," moaned the girl. ''I can't account for it. I tried in every way to gain her love, but she never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk and mistreat me, throwing up to me that I was a love child...
After hinting of the horrendous things she could tell if it were not for her desire to protect Ann's reputation, Mother Hewitt revealed "with hesitancy and regret" one of her daughter's delinquencies. At 17, said she, Ann had planned to elope with their chauffeur, written him shocking letters which unfortunately could not be produced in evidence since they were "of a character to justify their immediate destruction." Declared Mother Hewitt: "They contained locks of hair of Ann's and a great many references to things which should not be written about. I paid thousands...
...such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball's Landis and cinema's Hays, to tell them what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary, to help prevent "racketeers" from gaining control of the industry. For Pin Tsar, the Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association...
...worrying fact about U. S. foxhunting is its brief, comparatively traditionless history. Author Peters faces the fact, avers time will tell it differently, reminds his supporters that George Washington, though he may not have dressed the part, was an ardent pursuer of foxes. Chief differences between U. S. and English hunting are of climate and country: "Our days are not so long, our distances, curious as it may seem, not so great, and our going, except for the damage of frozen ground, not so severe on horses." But to hedge-jumping British riders U. S. post-&-rail fences seem high...