Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's 14 closed churches, frantically ringing bells that had been silent for a decade. Hastily the city authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall for time, State spokesmen falsely reported that the Legislature was willing to let the opened churches stay open. When Governor Alemán cracked out a denial...
...find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...vigorous a man physically as the Holy Father now was frail, Pius XI had chosen to bestow a high honor, sending him as Legate a latere-spiritually and literally "from the Pope's side"-to the Congress in Manila. Emerging from the Vatican after a half-hour visit, loyally declaring that the Pope looked "well, bright and cheerful," Cardinal Dougherty said the Holy Father's message to his children in Manila was: "Pray for the re- establishment of peace in a world which needs it badly...
...understand was that the Tsar thought him too potentially useful to be imprisoned, too dangerous not to be watched. But until he discovered that he was not really free, Pushkin was overjoyed, dove into his old gay life with more zest than ever. He even got permission to visit St. Petersburg, gambled away 17,000 rubles in two months...
...fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware of his danger, Mr. Donkin carried on, up holding the tyrannical dictates of the Head in public, in private shaking his wiser head. When his lost love's daughters descended on him for an indefinite visit, Mr. Donkin's position was further complicated, for two of the girls were old and pretty enough to set adolescent boys on their ears; the third was a tomboy tare who always fell on good ground. All meant well by Mr. Donkin, whom they adored, but their good intentions merely paved...