Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment for the future, and most humbly ask pardon of God and penance and absolution of you, my spiritual Father...
Mexican peasants are quite apt to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them...
...huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...
...Virgin Man", and "The Captive" have been found just too low-down for the New York Police Department to countenance. Managers of all three plays violently protest their innocence, and rejoice. Padlocking is better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag...
...Confirmed Captain Waldo Evans (TIME, Jan. 31) as Governor of the Virgin Islands...