Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maura's family and the police. "My Roman Catholic religion had been fear and dread," said the voice. "The new religion to which I was introduced was simple and free from fear." Three priests had been called in, and she was about to be carted off to a convent. "I took the opportunity to escape while the priests were having a cup of tea . . . I am in God's hands...
Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...
...Bernanos plot is based on the historical martyrdom of 16 Carmelite nuns during the revolutionary terror in Paris in 1789. The opera follows the spiritual struggles of a young noblewoman, Blanche de la Force, who has joined a Carmelite convent in Compiègne on the eve of the Revolution. Weak and fearful at first, she gradually gains spiritual strength. In a strange contrast, it is the doughty Mother Superior who dies in fear, while the once cowardly Blanche dies a glorious martyr's death; she twice spurns a chance to escape and, with other Carmelites, goes serenely...
...lived in a dazzling palace he built for her. Her end is shrouded in legend. In his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder relates that her beauty was so marred by smallpox that she never afterwards left her mansion, except when she sought solace in a convent. Her nickname, La Perricholi, is supposedly a combination of chola, which in Peru means a woman of mixed birth, and perra, which means bitch...
...RYAN won the refugees' confidence even more quickly by producing her International Passport of the Society of the Sacred Heart -an identification card issued by this world-circling order of nuns to traveling former students. Finding a young woman who had been a student at the Sacred Heart Convent in Budapest, Deirdre showed her card from the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington, D.C. After that, the Hungarians were convinced they were among friends...