Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went some 2,000 uneasy turpentiners & friends for the annual gathering of the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative. Munching barbecued chicken carefully nurtured for the occasion, they saw Mary Newton, 17, a redheaded, brown-eyed Georgia Peach, crowned Miss Turpentine of 1940, stood by for the cutting of a virgin pine-symbol that a new turpentine year...
With the anti-war chest, which is expected to reach $10,000 in the national sale, the National Student Union plans to do more of its pacifist work in the South and Southwest, virtually virgin territory for this sort of campaigning...
Last week the Catholic Sodality of Our Lady said its say on a movie that has not yet been made. The editors of The Queen's Work, Sodality magazine, sent an open letter to veteran Director Cecil Blount De Mille, who is planning a cinema on the Virgin Mary, titled The Queen of Queens. Director De Mille is an old hand at lavish religious spectacles (The King of Kings, Ten Commandments, The Sign of the Cross). But the Sodalists were disturbed to hear that he had bought the film rights to Family Portrait, a last-season Broadway play which...
Wrote the Sodalists: "In this day, when purity is taking such a battering and virginity is treated with contempt, a play that presented Mary, not as a virgin, but as the mother of a large family was more than distasteful to us. ... You are going to be surprised and probably shocked to find how many followers of Jesus Christ bitterly dislike, if they do not actively hate, the mother of the Savior. . . . May we hope that because of your picture there wilt be reawakened in the hearts of this modern age, which conspires against the entrance of children into...
...Lose It at the Astor, ostensibly written by John Doe and Joe Doaques (actually Hugh Prince and Don Raye). A sister piece, She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married, has sold 75,000 records for Mr. Oberstein. Not yet recorded is I'm a Virgin but I'm On the Verge, by ASCAP Member Paul Denniker...