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Word: virginals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners waved tearful farewells and the Mexican press broke into congratulatory headlines, Seiiora Castro Balda walked out through the prison gates. A vindicated martyr, at 49 more bloomingly plump than ever, she drove with her husband to the Villa Madero, placed a grateful bouquet at the foot of the Virgin of Guadalupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Madre Conchita's Martyrdom | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Barbara, a beauteous Middle East virgin of the Third Century, was kept in a tower by her stern, heathen father, one Dioscorus. Be fore leaving on a journey, he ordered a bath house for her, with two windows. In his absence, she got the architect to make it three windows. When her father returned, she confessed the three windows were for the Trinity: she had become a Christian. Dioscorus had her tortured, sentenced to die, himself beheaded her. On his way home from court he was struck by lightning, burned to death. Thereafter people, especially gunners and miners, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Surprise No. 6 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Within the past couple of months Oboler has published a book of 14 radio plays, has been signed as a writer-director for the cinema by Frank Lloyd Productions. His virgin effort as a movie scriptwriter was Escape (TIME, Nov. 18), in which he managed to get Alla Nazimova a leading role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Busy Wunderkind | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Germanic Museum will open its fourth season of free organ recitals on Tuesday evening, November 26th, at 8:15, with a concert by Ernest White, distinguished organists of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City. From a large repertory of seventeenth and eighteenth century music, Mr. White has chosen for his program works from rarely heard German and English composers, Handel and Bach, and the "Prelude, Fugue and Variation" by Cesar Franck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Recitals Planned | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Pindus front. With necessary modifications of this tactic they pushed the enemy back of the Kalamas River on the flat coastal front. Devout Greeks, remembering that Italians had invaded Albania on Good Friday and sunk the cruiser Helle on the day of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, saw Providence in the Kalamas River's first flood in 128 years. Using the same device they pressed their counterinvasion of Albania on the northern end of the front. Corizza (see map, p. 21}) was on the point of falling as the week began, was still about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: First Round: Hellas | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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