Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice of William Henry Hastie to be Governor of the Virgin Islands, the President had sent a Negro to govern a predominantly Negro population. In picking Jesús Piñero, he said that he was giving an earnest of the U.S. desire for U.S. colonials to have a greater voice in their government...
...serious Satanists have for centuries amused themselves with much talk and rare observance of the luridly infamous Black Mass. Capable of infinite variation in its pseudo-liturgical mumbo jumbo, the Black Mass usually has as its basic ingredients a consecrated host, an apostate priest, a prostitute and a virgin, combined to achieve a maximum of orgiastic blasphemy...
They will also find an interesting section devoted to non-Catholic poets who, Noyes feels, expressed Catholic thought and Catholic emotion. These include Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. Especially timely are the atomic-age overtones in Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres, written by Agnostic Henry Adams...
...Meaning "Town of the Virgin," from the Indian Mani, "the Virgin Mary," and waki, "the town...
...Confirmed the nominations of: 1) onetime Tennessee Governor Prentice Cooper as Ambassador to Peru; 2) Careerman Walter Thurston as Ambassador to Mexico; 3) Judge William Hastie as Governor of the Virgin Islands-the first Negro to hold the post...