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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explaining, "Pertinax" went on to charge that Ambassador Herrick has been "so good a friend to France" as to have unwittingly deceived her statesmen by his own Francophility into th King that the U. S. would...
...near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
...very hard to see why the saintliness of Thérèse is a saintliness of present day appeal. There is a harbor of peace in her isolation from the loud materialism that generalizers condemn in the contemporary chaos, and it pleases an age of youth to worship a girl who died when she was 24. People still come crowding to be healed* at the doors of the convent at Lisieux, where now the Saint's sister is Mother Superior...
Statues of St. Thérèse are in thousands of Roman Catholic Churches even in many where the roster of the saints is no more than hinted at by half a dozen effigies. Last week in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Patrick Cardinal Hayes blessed a new altar for La Petite Fleur, St. Thérèse. The altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework...
...Last week, in Montreal, Alice Provost, 22, Marie Blanche Armande Nichol, 17 and Thérèse Morier, 17, claimed to have been cured suddenly on Jan. 28 of well-defined infirmities (discrepancy in the length of legs, paralyzed leg, stiff arm); when and because one Father Jacques Dugas subjected them to a laying-on of a reliquary which contained the bones of some recently beatified Jesuit martyrs. Physicians examined the girls, sent a certificate of their cure to Rome by a Jesuit Father and said: "You may thank God for such extraordinary benedictions...