Word: convention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return to his house, he admitted her without altering his expression. Thus her malice and his stoicism continued until they combined to drive her into a convent. The War took...
...attractive to her and she sets her feet in the ways of the world, shedding her sacred garments and going forth with a gay knight. Then does the Blessed Virgin descend from her high place, don the robes of the nun and take the nun's place in the convent. Then the people weep and cry out, for their sacred image has been lost...
...saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with the ending of Il Pagliacci, "La comedia è finita...
...example before her eyes in Thérèse Callendar, daughter of Dikran Leopopulos (a Levantine banker of Constantinople), reared in a French convent and carried off down the Bosporus in a clipper ship by a young Yankee merchant from Manhattan. When Ellen knew her she was old and ugly but a shrewd dowager in society and in business, and although she carried biscuits in her reticule and nibbled them when she became excited, she was not at all innocent and was very able...
...blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married, the father trying to govern his family without assistance from the convent nuns...