Word: vestals
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...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...
Political Reaction. Onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labor Party, accused Premier Stanley Baldwin and his ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...Vestale, they announced at the bidding of him who held the strings, will open the season on the evening of Nov. 1. Rosa Ponselle will be the lovely Vestal to abandon the sacred fire for an earthly lover; Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will...
Officer in charge, salvage operations, S-51. United States Fleet Base Force, Train Squadron 1. U. S. S. Vestal...
...that on the one hand make the U.S. appear uncivilized, and on the other deny to U.S. artists legislative benefits of a kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...