Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign countries and United States possessions on the list, three, Abyssinia, Peru, and the Virgin Islands, are newcomers, and ten of last year's list have dropped out. Canada is as usual first, China second, Hawaii third, England fourth, France fifth, Japan sixth, Porto Rico seventh, India eighth, and Germany ninth...
...Federal Reserve Bank or the U. S. Assay office. (Avaricious U. S. citizens can, of course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London, boosted English bullion reserves over native protests. And, more important, the tireless quest for virgin gold kept on. The best spot heralded last week was in the cold northeast of Sweden where 40 rich claims await development near the Boliden mine, which last year produced twelve tons ($7,000,000) of gold. Said Count Ehrinsvard, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, "The importance of these mines...
Assuming you wish to be correct in all your statements, I beg to state that the picture of the Blessed Virgin painted by Saint Luke is not in Rome, but in St. Mark's in Venice (TIME, Dec. 28). It is shown to the people for a few days at certain periods of the year. We were fortunate enough to see it in November, 1930. MARY A. F. BRENNAN...
...happiest hours Mr. Roosevelt passes at Hyde Park in the house his father bought in 1866 and in which he was born. It is old and colonial. Its clapboard sides have been stuccoed and a stone wing added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here...
...finds a world where his emotions are free to practice every caprice. Music can turn him about and twist his spirit into a thousand different forms. The proud, moving music of the medieval church carries him closer to the cathedral tradition, to the mysterious power of priest and Virgin, than anything else he knows. Far as the Universal Church may be removed from the intellectual scepticism and the emotional sterility of Cambridge, nevertheless, the Vagabond has found a way to bridge the centuries. Three times a week he makes pilgrimage to Sever's roman halls where he can satisfy himself...