Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania game either next Tuesday or Wednesday, and the squad will leave Cambridge next Thursday night after the usual afternoon practice. On Friday they practice on Franklin Field, and Saturday they meet a powerful Quaker team, weakened this year only by the graduation of the great Francis Xavier Reagan...
Born. To Francis Xavier Shields, 30, onetime No. 1 U.S. tennist, and Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 24, daughter of Princess Torlonia and the late Prince Torlonia of Italy: a son, Francis Alexander (7¾ lb.); in Manhattan...
...Riverside with a real feeling that the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan (Japan Christian Church), being as indigenous as Fujiyama, might make Japan more Christian than foreign missions ever succeeded in doing. Japanese delegates had made the point that Christianity flourished in 16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church...
...Francis Xavier Reagan, captain and star catcher of the Pennsylvania nine was radiating self-confidence when he ordered pitcher Anthony Caputo off the mound with two down and two men on and the score tied five-all in the last inning of the first game on Soldiers Field Saturday...
...When she got a call from the London revue producer, Andre Chariot, Gertie sneaked her clothes from the theatre where she was playing, borrowed the fare to London, and landed a three-year contract with Chariot starting at $16 a week. Shortly afterwards she married a showman named Francis Xavier Gordon-Howley who, as the justice remarked at the divorce proceedings several years later, seemed to have intended to spend the rest of his life living on her income...