Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump of the horse. Martin, wearing a ruff, inclined with pity in the saddle, severs with...
Last week's news of a $4,000,000 combined hospital and hotel building being projected in Manhattan gave wit-stirring material to newspaper columnists. The vision of a high jinx victim being trundled from his bedroom to the convenient emergency ward was irresistible...
...Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" because Mother appeared in a miraculous vision to testify that homicide was justified. Finally, in accordance with parental instructions, the Pearl is bestowed upon Love...
From that vantage point he scanned the then desperate financial morass of Austria and displayed the courage, vision and leadership to persuade his people to seek financial rehabilitation through virtually placing the national finances in the hands of a receiver: The League of Nations. As everyone knows League fiscal control of Austria was terminated only this year (TIME, July 12) after the country had made one of the most sensationally rapid fiscal recoveries in history. Perhaps never before did a statesman lead his people in the unprecedented course of placing their national purse strings in foreign hands...
...Moved by religious vision at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (TIME, June 28), Miss Marie A. Easby-Smith, 35, woman lawyer of Washington, D. C., renounced last week her profession and the world, to enter a Maryland convent. Miss Easby-Smith's priest advised her against the step, but she said to her father, simply: "I am going...