Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic countries (France, Belgium, Spain, etc.) blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys...
...institutions of learning." Nothing more gloriously ironic has ever emanated from any editorial column. One wishes that one might believe the World's Greatest Newspaper to have its tongue in its cheek, to be heaping coals of fire on those colleges and universities who live and die by their virgin goals lines. Such an attitude would be possible with almost any other journal in these United States--excepting the Chicago Tribune. They are not given to sardonics, these western magogs. They are sorry maliciously and gloatingly sorry...
...Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, a new teacher was introduced to the student body, Professor James Moffat. He has translated the Bible into colloquial English, changing "Garden of" Eden" to "park," "a mess of pottage" to "a red omelet," "Wise men of the East" to "magicians," the Virgin Mary's reply to the angel, "I know not a man," to "But I have no husband...
...just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home with hysteric lies is another portrait of the sex-starved woman. There have been many such portraits in life and letters of late. Hidden is another good one; affords an interesting evening...
...Latour found hidden water. Brother Joseph Vaillant, the scrawny but indomitable baker's son with whom Jean Latour stole out of France to make comradely conquests for God in the New World, and who later became bishop of tumbled, rocky Colorado, might have greatly elaborated this miracle, introducing the Virgin in colored robes when he related it. But not Bishop Latour. He was not a visionary ascetic. He wrought humbly with Nature, not beyond...