Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. C. Shelby Carter, descendant of King Carter, first governor of colonial Virginia, great-great-grandson of Col. Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and hero of King's Mountain Battle; to Mary Spingler King, scioness of the Van Beuren family; at Convent...
...Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Church in St. Mary's, Kan. Dated April 15, 1860, it was signed by L. Dumortier, Jesuit priest, missionary to the Potawatomies. In St. Mary's it was recalled that Ellen Pappan Curtis, the nominee's mother, attended St. Mary's Convent. Interviewed about the discovery, Nominee Curtis said: "I learned for the first time only a few years ago that I had been baptized a Roman Catholic. . . . My mother died, you know, when I was very young. ... I was brought up a good Methodist and that is my faith...
Sealed Lips. Dignified, beautiful in settings, is this Swedish film about an Italian girl who emerges from a convent to encounter an almost devastating love. Guy de Maupassant wrote the original story...
Raquel Meller has been the object of much myth. However, it is generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago; that she sang in a convent, in fishermen's cafes, before the King of Spain; that she has acquired three maids, eight dogs. 42 trunks of fine clothes; that she smokes cigarets tantalizingly. Her one-time husband, Gomez Carillo, South American journalist, once thought she was insane. But the Pope annulled that marriage...
...There is a harbor of peace in her isolation from the loud materialism that generalizers condemn in the contemporary chaos, and it pleases an age of youth to worship a girl who died when she was 24. People still come crowding to be healed* at the doors of the convent at Lisieux, where now the Saint's sister is Mother Superior...