Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John the Divine last month recommended to Protestants the practice of saying their prayers with a rosary. To those who find this too "Romish" he suggested the use of a knotted string. Quick to approve was the clergy of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, which has long out-Romanized the Romans. Said its monthly bulletin Ave: "Good for the Dean! . . . Perhaps we shall now be able to say our beads in the Cathedral without interruption. The last time we ventured to use our rosary in one of the unfrequented chapels behind the high altar...
This number will contain four poems: "Psalm" and "For Dead Poets" by Whitney G. Case '36, "A Virgin and the Ganymedes," by J. LeB. Boyle '35, and "In the End is Our Beginning" by James Loughlin...
Died. Hernand Behn, 53, elder of world-webbing International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West...
...ordinary hearing was that on the aluminum code in Washington last week. The code was to include a basic industry which consists of a single corporation. There are manufacturers of aluminum pots, pans, propellers, but only one U. S. producer of virgin aluminum-Aluminum Company of America, dominated by Andrew William Mellon & Family. The hearing soon settled down to a clean-cut fight between the independent fabricators, who must not only buy from Alcoa all their aluminum (except scrap) but also market their wares in competition with Alcoa, which is by far the biggest fabricator. The independents objected to three...
...taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more of it. but a few progressives, led by smart San Talal, began to dream of modernizing Mandoa. Meantime in London careful young Maurice Durrant, partner in Prince's Tours, Ltd., was carving his career. He heard of Mandoa as a virgin territory for his firm, a "sphere of influence" that might be developed for England. And his ne'er-do-well brother Bill was beginning to prove a hampering embarrassment. Killing two birds, he got Bill sent to Mandoa as agent of Prince's Tours...