Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President found time for a few other sorties from his job. One night he visited the restored, 195-year-old Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, was ushered in by Colonial-style linkboys to see a revival of David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens. On Sunday he walked eight blocks to Washington's First Baptist Church, where he gave a little talk to the Sunday-School class...
Jessica Allan loves her job. She is the pert, bright-eyed, fortyish executive director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. Last week, when more than 300 mayors and aldermen from Halifax to Victoria swarmed into Winnipeg's Royal Alexandria Hotel for the federation's tenth annual conference, everything was all set. Jessica had seen...
Married. Countess Victoria Calvi di Bergolo, 19, tall, brunette niece of ex-King Umberto of Italy; and 28-year-old Count Guglielmo Guarienti di Brezone, member of an old Verona family; in Alexandria, Egypt. The ceremony, brightened by royal relatives-including Umberto and the bride's grandfather, ex-King Victor Emmanuel-was somewhat marred by an unfulfilled threat (presumably by a few local Italian republicans) to bomb the church...
...Alexandria knew old St. Anthony by reputation, for he had worked miracles of solace among the martyrs there 30 years before. In the basilica he was given the place of honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...