Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several youths, believed to be College students, last night deposited a large moose-head before the statue of the Virgin Mary situated beside Father Feeney's headquarters...
...unusual convents in Germany. No casual visitor to the Sisterhood of St. Mary would notice what makes it different; like most Roman Catholic nuns, its 58 sisters wear wedding rings symbolizing their spiritual marriage to Christ, use religious names, make confession regularly, and practice a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. What makes them unusual is that they are Protestants...
...toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt Jenny), Arlene went on to mysteries (Mr. District Attorney), musicals (Phil Spitalny's show), and THE MARCH OF TIME. In her 20-odd Broadway roles, most of them undistinguished, she played everything from a Russian sniper to the Virgin Mary; but when Hollywood cast her as a prostitute in Murders in the Rue Morgue, her father shot off a hot wire: "Have just seen you half-naked on the screen. Come home...
...first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only fallen in love with love. In name Hope was a wife, in reality she was a permanently affronted virgin. Reflecting on the ignorance of his early years, Arthur Winner learns another lesson: "Youth's a kind of infirmity...
...Borse, weighing 90 Ibs.. was carried aboard the plane. At the grotto where, in 1858, Bernadette Soubirous reported her visions of the Virgin, two male nurses supported him on each side. "Then came the physical shock of the cold water. There was nothing dramatic. I just suddenly felt completely fit. I wanted to jump out of the pool myself, but the attendants held me. I dressed myself and the attendants came after me with the chair, but I insisted on walking. There were moments when my legs felt like jelly; I felt I'd never make...