Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique among U. S. clubs is San Francisco's talented and hilarious Bohemian, unique its famed camp 80 mi. north of San Francisco, a 30,000-acre grove of virgin redwoods on the banks of the Russian River. Founded 50 years ago by western artists and art-patrons, it has" about 1,500 members throughout the world, meets every week. The Bohemian is the only club in the world to exchange with New York's Lambs, includes such famed artists as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Lawrence Tibbett. Artist members pay no dues, contribute their artistic efforts instead...
Zion, in southwest Utah, is Yosemite done in oils. Its fantastic peaks and spires stand on the floor of the Virgin River Canyon in glittering pinks, whites and vermilions. The Great White Throne of Zion has a history as awesome as its name. Only two men have ever stood in the forest which caps its flat and crumbly sides. One was so unnerved by the descent that he was killed on an easier climb two days later. The other fell on the way down, survived only to become a nervous wreck...
...associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from 400 Roman Catholic priests, 6,000 laymen with the proposal to make "movie and talkie pictures of a thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." Superfilm from National Diversified was to be called Mary, The Virgin. The company did produce two cinemas featuring Eddie Dowling, good Catholic comedian, before going into bankruptcy in 1930. The Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took...
...Oxford and St. Mary the Virgin's Church traveled Church of England and Episcopalian pilgrims...
...When in 1920 Pope Benedict XV looked about for a patron saint for airmen, he had not far to seek. At Loreto, overlooking the Adriatic, stood a Holy House which, by legend, was the onetime residence of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. When in 1263 the Turks threatened it with destruction, a squadron of angels is supposed to have picked up Mary's house and flown it to a place near Fiume, thence to Loreto. By the Pope's decree the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto became "special patron with God of all things aeronautic...