Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days wore on Professor Pereda received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed...
...Catholic priests quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the Berlin suburb of Hcnnigsdorf. There gathered 1,800 Catholic children, aged 10 to 16, on church property for their first spring festival. The field was bright with their church club banners, blazoned with pictures of the Blessed Virgin and other saints. Suddenly from nowhere marched a company of Hitler Jugend. The company marched clean through the crowd of children, seized a banner, about-faced and marched back again. At this show of big-boy force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station...
...Virgin Birth & Immaculate Conception Sirs: In the March 12 issue of your most interesting magazine, in a footnote to the article en- titled "Joseph's Son," reference is made to Kenan's Life of Christ. Your writer speaks of Renan as one "who also rejected the Immaculate Conception." It is very evident that your writer has fallen into the popular error of confusing the Virgin Birth with the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is one that is accepted by most Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant, while the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is one which...
...President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early morning swim with Governor Pearson, visited Negro huts, made a speech. At St. Croix she accepted a 40-year-old bottle of rum in honor of the fact that the Federal Government is soon to finance...
...news that the Federal government plans to establish a huge corporation in the Virgin Islands to produce rum must appear as glad tidings to the people of the United States as well as to the inhabitants of the islands. For the natives it promises to end the poverty-stricken condition which has been the lot of almost the entire population since this country acquired the islands from Denmark in 1917, and should bring about an economic rehabilitation which should be the sounder and the more enduring for being based upon a cooperative corporation that will give the inhabitants their share...