Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juan Diego, shirtless Mexican Indian, was trudging through Guadalupe, few miles from Mexico City. Suddenly he received the impression that a fair young virgin, the Mother of God, stood before him. Falling on his face he prayed. Rising up he succeeded in convincing others of the verity of his impression. Since then (1851) thousands, tens of thousands and finally as many as two hundred thousand worshipers at a time have come to pray at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...Juan Diego's impression. Like him, they were mostly shirtless, but some few were devout Roman Catholics of wealth and consequence. Due to the anticlerical laws (TIME, Feb. 22) no Roman Catholic priest officiated at the shrine. Roman Catholic laymen, armed with batons, hurried the crowds past the Blessed Virgin's image. Peons who sought to crawl to and from the shrine on all fours were made to get up and walk lest they obstruct...
...fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
Unless you continue to print more of Mary Elizabeth Robinn's letters and stop using the word "Manhattan" I will stop my subscription. . . . That disappointed virgin Robinn must need a mate to soften her perennial ire against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above...
...HARD-BOILED VIRGIN - Frances Newman - Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself...