Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More interesting than her picture, Marion Davies is still the smartest of the four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give...
...Gatineau Point, Quebec, a convent caught fire. Sisters Annette, Margaret Marie and Superior Ste. Cyrille stood at the top of a fire escape calling for help. But they were attired only in nightgowns; when a fireman approached them they ran back into the convent and were burned to death...
...bugles blowing with unceasing regularity make us sometimes wish that we had chosen the "dorms" of John Harvard to the barracks of West Point. Studying five or six hours a day for recitations makes us wish that we had the lecture courses of Harvard to attend. Leading the almost-convent-like existence of Cadets, we sometimes with that we, too, had the careless freedom of the Harvard Yard or the carefree, club-like atmosphere of the Union. Yes, men of Harvard, there are times when we envy...
Near St. Louis, Mother Aloysius of the Carmelite Sisters, who had not left her convent for 50 years, moved to a nunnery several miles away. She was taken there in an automobile driven by one William McKenna, who later said...
...people were in such a hurry. When we got to Forest Park, she exclaimed at the beauty of it, and when we passed the golf links, she wanted to know why the men and women with the clubs were hitting the ground. When we reached the new convent, Mother Aloysius seemed very happy and relieved...