Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pudgy Machiavelli, Author Ben Hecht, who first made Chicago conscious of its exciting capacity for sophisticated wickedness. Mrs. Taylor, sprung from nowhere, will now revive the Hechtic excitement. Her wit and style are surpassingly original. Her treatment of esoteric erotics, from the viewpoint of a hard-boiled young Dakota virgin steeped in French novels, is a wide and pleasant departure from the lucubrations of Mr. Hecht's rather sleazy males. But Mrs. Taylor's actual material is like nothing so much as 17 more chapters in Mr. Hecht's 1001 Afternoons. It consists chiefly of a mauve Fatima...
When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
Next day, one Jean Henri Baptiste Brieux, son of a poor kiosk woman, entered several shops where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold...
...were dedicated to Mary. To them the devout brought votive offerings, often silver and gold models of the man or the part of his body saved through the intervention of Mary.§ Those most devout reported that they had seen miracles, seen blood flowing from the statues of the Virgin, seen her eyes weeping in sorrow, seen her head lower or her hand raise in benediction. Over all Europe good Catholics lifted up their voices in "Ave Marias" as they counted out their prayers on well-worn rosaries...
...John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics to pray...